Sunday, November 6, 2011 – Darkness Returning
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word “darkness” on the walls of his cell. ~ C. S. Lewis
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ~ Jean Genet
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ~ John Ruskin
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ~ Carl Jung
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? ~ James Thurber
Death doesn’t exist. It never did, it never will. But we’ve drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we’ve got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing. ~ Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. ~ Charles Manson
Character is what you are in the dark. ~ Dwight L. Moody
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. ~ Linda Ellerbee
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ~ Anna Quindlen
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~ Richard Wright
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like. ~ Shelagh Delaney
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. ~ Carl Jung
All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears – of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words “Some Assembly Required.” ~ Dave Barry
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~ Terry Pratchett
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ~ Aldous Huxley
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. ~ Gene Fowler
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Man dies of cold, not of darkness. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ~ Marianne Williamson
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ T. S. Eliot
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ~ Terry Pratchett
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. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. ~ Pythagoras
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~ Mark Twain
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. ~ Franz Kafka
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift. ~ Mary Oliver
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams. ~ Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. ~ John 1:5
You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light. ~ Edward Abbey
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~ George Carlin
Just Above Sunset 