Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
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Quotes tagged ‘Darkness’
Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.
Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.
Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.
Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
Love, as I watch you sleep, knowing the iron in the blood that keeps you alive was born from a hard star-death somewhere in the past that is also the future, and what I mean to say is that I am so lucky to be living with you in this brief moment of light before everything goes dark.
Love, which we are traveling through at such an astonishing speed, entire galaxies racing past, universes, it is as if we are watching time itself drift into the cosmos, like a spinning wall of images already gone.
But even in the dark, time would go on, bold in its black cloak, no shade, no shadow, only the onward motion of movement, which is what time, if it exists at all, really is
I was soon swallowed by darkness.
We're gonna get out of here ok? We're gonna find a window or something ok? Don't worry. Even though it was pitch black.
Turn off the lights.
I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was n…
Is there no way out the mind?
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.