I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.”
Source: Local Girls
“In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.”
Source: An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library
“In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”
Source: Faith of the Fallen
“In the darkest moments of our lives, we lose our faith. and in the same darkness... we find it”
Source: 7 Cups of Coffee
“In the darkest moments, one comes to seek the light, and there finds faith.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“In the darkest moments, you often find the brightest versions of yourself.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.”
“In the darkest of days a single light shall shine and the chosen one will appear,”
Source: Disciple of The Devas
“In the darkest of nights cling to the assurance that God loves you, that He always has advice for you, a path that you can tread and a solution to your problem.”
“In the darkest of places, even the slightest glimmer of Light shines as the Sun.”
“In the darkest of the times
When nothing is visible,
You actually get to see the real faces of people”
“In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.”
Source: Making Life Rich Without Any Money
“In the darkest part of the earth are hidden treasures; so in every man can be found valuable gifts, if only we dig deeper and overlook the dust.”
“In the darkest part of the night, you are where I find my light”
Source: Limitations
“In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.”
Source: Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir
“In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life.”
“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”
“In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.”
Source: The Prayer That Changes Everything®
“In the darkness, Ayami's voice insisted overwhelmingly on its own identity. It was a corporeal voice. Just as, in the light of day, people can't help their gaze going to a beautiful woman, in the darkness they pay more attention to the voice. They accept the mystery of seeming to feel the other's gaze on their skin.”
Source: Untold Night and Day
“In the darkness, every fear finds a face.”
Source: Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
“In the darkness, every ray that broke through was not only noticeable but absolutely brilliant. Although this cavern surely did nothing to make the sun’s rays more brilliant than they already were, it did serve to elucidate their existing beauty. In the same way, my chronic brokenness and failures didn’t hinder the beauty of what God had done for me. Instead, my mistakes reminded me of the extent He went to in order to forgive me, heal me, and free me.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“In the darkness, her skin was as pale and luminous as frost. Her snowy eyelahes brushed against her cheekbone, and her hair flowed around them like moonlit water. All it would take was a a twitch of her hand to twist her finger around one of Sylvia’s curls.”
Source: A Dark and Drowning Tide
“In the darkness I fall prey to the twin tragedies of never seeing the path sufficiently to ever find it, and mistaking darkness for light so that wandering becomes mistaken for destiny. And in it all, a single word from God obliterates both.”
“In the darkness of despair, let this light of wisdom shine,
What He gave was always His, so what I lost was never mine.”
“In the darkness of my soul, I have wondered if God enjoys watching despair, the way voyeurs watch sex. That would explain a great deal of human history! My faith in the meaning of Jesus's life and in Christian doctrine has been shaken to its core ...if I am to sustain my belief in a good and loving God who is not arbitrary and capricious and vicious, I must believe that some higher purpose is served by all this...and the greatest service I can do Emilio Sandoz is to make it possible for him to discover what that purpose may have been.”
Source: Children of God
“In the darkness of night,
Demons strut, taunting, goading.
In the light of day,
Angels sing glorious songs.
In the time in between,
We live our lives alone and searching.
And sometimes, softly,
You understand damnation.
All is forgotten, all is lost,
All but forgiveness
And the memory of her kiss.”
Source: The Hourglass Door
“In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.”
“In the darkness, seek not the light, be the light.”
“In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.”
Source: Itsy's Ugly
“In the darkness she wrapped her arms around him and pressed herself against his snuggly warmth, a blissful hum in her veins. She was safe and loved, in bed with her man.”
Source: Last Chance Saloon: A Hilarious Romantic Comedy About Best Friends and Heartbreak in Their Thirties
“In the darkness, the truth hides, waiting to be uncovered.”
Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
“In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.”
Source: The Long-Legged Fly
“In the darkness time, let your passion and spirit lead you to make a better decision.”
“In the darkness time, no human can save you, only the sacred divine light.”
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk.
Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun,”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“In the darkness with no ember, cold coals bear no flaming tinder. All the shadows, man resemble. In the darkness, wise men tremble. Prodigious foes made thee for pointless sake of prosaic power. Visited upon thyself no vestige of vision by late nights hour. In the stillness of normal eve, in longing for the night's reprieve. In air and earth arise a faint and subtle shift, tis follies gift. With tremulous breath, whisper faintly from thy spirits tower. 'Woe to me!', thy soul says. Cometh nigh, The Rez.”
Source: Reign of Madness
“In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.”
Source: The Letters Of Pliny, The Younger: With Observations On Each Letter
“In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.”
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
“In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?”
Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems
“In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.”
Source: UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
“In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.”
“In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.”
Source: A Season in Hell
“In the dawn of daffodils, gold splashes everywhere, as the earth is bathed in the splendor of sun.”
“In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year . . . No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year’s day.”
Source: The Little Match Girl
“In the dawn of my youth, my mother's gentle wake-up calls were met with defiant protests, a rebellion against the inevitable start of the day. As the sands of time shifted, age settled in, and my mother, understanding the fatigue that accompanies the passing years, graciously allows me the luxury of uninterrupted sleep. Yet, in the quiet moments, an unspoken ache lingers—a subtle yearning for the attention that once sparked resistance, now sought in the soft touch of a mother's waking whispers.”
“in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.”
“In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night”
“IN THE DAY, MY LIGHT IS YOUR SHADOW AND IN THE NIGHT, MY SHADOW IS YOUR LIGHT, LORD SHIVA (SUN)”