Ovid Quotes, Men Quotes, Darkness Quotes

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

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A beam in darkness: let it grow.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Soul Quotes , Darkness Quotes

May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fear Quotes , Darkness Quotes

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Darkness Quotes , Add Quotes

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Darkness Quotes