#darkness

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. ↗

— James Madison

#anywhere #darkness #despotism #done #everywhere

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. ↗

— Charles Manson

#demons #devils #did #i #loose

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#i #interval #silence #sound #space

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#darkness #gets #healing #hurt #into

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. ↗

— David O. McKay

#blackness #cannot #darkness #dispel #hatred

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#appeared #back #darkness #fifteen #froth

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. ↗

— Ovid

#darkness #every #fair #fault #forgiven

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. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#cruelty #crushed #darkness #even #grave

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

#bad #beach #blank #change #could