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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world
View quotes by Joaquin Miller

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
View quotes by Carl Gustav Jung

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
View quotes by Dwight Moody

Even so, one step from my grave,
I believe that cruelty, spite,
The powers of darkness will in time,
Be crushed by the spirit of light.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
View quotes by Hodding Carter

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
View quotes by Helen Keller

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
View quotes by Hannah More

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
View quotes by Hannah More

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. - Cause of Death
View quotes by Patricia Cornwell

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
View quotes by Thomas Gray

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide (Hymn)
View quotes by Henry Francis Lyte

For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell. It’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.
View quotes by James Baldwin

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms (Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1)
View quotes by William Shakespeare

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness. [Now is that profound or just meaningless?]
View quotes by Sam Francis

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide. [Heart of Darkness]
View quotes by Joseph Conrad

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
View quotes by Elias Canetti

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
View quotes by John Milton

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them (The Fellowship of the Ring)
View quotes by J R R Tolkien

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