Quotes About Darkness

In that fraction of an instant between when that person stops singing and when that person decides to rise from the bed and disappear-a tiny rehearsal, though you do not yet know it, of what will eventually happen for good-time holds still, and you can feel, through your closed eyes, how that person, watching your still, small face in the darkness, has suddenly realized that you are the reason his life matters.

It was nine French fries because I counted. Was it a lie that Aja said he ate ten French fries? Did a small lie like that matter? Bree didn't look at me or talk to me again all day. The Earth sun was not shining inside me. It was as dark as midnight in there. That evening, I was surprised Bree still came over to talk about the party. She frowned and said, "Well, we still have to figure out the food." Mom and Dad were in the study working on the loud-soft problem. The

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

We live in a world that is lost and in a moment of intense darkness. Have we fallen asleep when our Lord and Savior has asked us to stay awake with Him? Are we sleeping in spiritually and letting momentous events and opportunities pass us by? My dear friends, let's wake up and draw close to Jesus.

Pride and humility, just like darkness and light, have a hard time hanging out together. Actually, without humility, we have very little chance of sustained influence. When

Being a pope is like walking around in pitch darkness.

Only when you have experienced the dark side of mindfulness, will you meet loneliness.

Fooey! The porchlight is burnt out, and I can't see whether it's dark outside or not.

until the night it ate the baby.

What was wrong with darkness? In the darkness of the Earth the Mother caused seeds to sprout. In the darkness of the womb a baby was conceived. In the darkness of the graves her Children returned to her.

Après l'âge des légendes vient l'âge des ténèbres. Comme un fÅ"tus qui évolue. Puis vient l'âge de la sagesse – bien que certains mondes ne parviennent jamais à sortir de l'âge des ténèbres.

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession. It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith , pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination. It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate . Be a potato.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

And I have to tell you,' he continued a little worriedly, 'that the tales of its barbarous and primitive manners are myriad. We are in a savage place here – Doctor, was it? – a place of infamy and the fecund darkness of the death of gentility. . .

The secret is this: monkey mind feeds in darkness, it shrinks under the light of observation.

Is it the shadow itself that looks out through our eyes at midday? Small wonder that so many traditional peoples give themselves over to siesta, and sleep, for an hour or two at this time, letting their tissues and organs respond to this interior visitation by the night, allowing the many cells or souls within them to be tutored by the darkness that has taken temporary refuge within their flesh.

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

Again, this exists in people to differing degrees, and it is possible to have someone who is neutral—right in the middle of the spectrum. But Jimmy Palmer isn't neutral. He is about as far down in the dark depths as you can go. He is a sociopath. A psychopath. A man who has no feeling for those of his fellow creatures. He sees his family as his own to do whatever he wants with.

DARK FORCES OF THE CONDIMENT ARE

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it is true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Her voice had something of the warm darkness in it.