#darkness

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. ↗

— Paula Cole

#darkness #find #get #happiness #huge

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#among #angel #back #darkness #fallen

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#future #illuminates #longer #past #spirit

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#greater #light #me #mystery #than

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#being #darkness #despite #hope #light

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#beyond #darkness #doubt #falsehood #light

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#both #darkness #eclipse #glory #go

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#darkness #i #know #lack #movies

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious. ↗

— John Crowley

#doors #falling-asleep #sleep #sophie-dale-drinkwater #sparkling-darkness

I can hear clouds drifting across the sky! The worms beneath my feet…demand freedom from the darkness…the secret hopes of humankind…all of it trivial. I can see into other worlds…other universes…they’re calling out to me. They’ve always called to me! I never knew that until now, but now I know everything. ↗

— Kirkland Ciccone

#freedom