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“And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.”

Humans Littles Ends Helping Faces Realizing Darkness Elements Vulnerable This Life Cynicism Introducing Finite Silliness

Author:Alan Thicke

“If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness.”

Ifs Believe Light Faces Darkness If You Believe Darkness To Light

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.”

Reason Light Lasts Faces Death Fall Steps Darkness Mines Thee Vain Surround Shade Veils

Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

“There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!”

“Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.”

“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.”

Trying Wells Looks Long Whole Faces Asks Secret Steps Darkness Cutting Son Towns Folks Edges Whole Life Ems Your Face Drag Every Step

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee. (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with a few years of total darkness to make up for it.”

Years Whole Might Faces Darkness Too Much Decades Glad Senses Saving Guarantees Loan Daylight Saving Time

Author:Erik Naggum

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.”

“Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?”

Faces Darkness Trouble Dare

Author:Betty MacDonald

“No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its position, as the pillar of fire, to lead the race onward. The intelligence and power of the race are with those who have embraced it; and now, if this, instead of proving indeed a pillar of fire from God, should be found but a delusive meteor, then nothing will be left to the race but to go back to a darkness that may be felt, and to a worse than Egyptian bondage.”

Source: Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book, with a Supplementary Chapter Considering Some Attacks on the Critical School, the Corroborative Evidence of Recently Discovered Manuscripts, Etc., and the Testimony of Jesus on His Trial

“Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.”

Faces Ability Darkness Ordinary Ultimate Ordinary People Anthem

Author:Joe Dempsie

“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.”

“Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.”

Giving Faces Darkness Bombs Mortality

Author:Peter Stillman

“I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.”

Way Heart Mean Persons Pain Faces Form Darkness Tradition Opening Conventional Guru Removal

Author:Maya Tiwari

“When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.”

“The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!”

Moments Light Happiness Faces Joy Darkness Fishes Agony Face To Face Light And Darkness Fisherman Light And Dark

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!”

Men Faces Turns Change Darkness Sun Wise Fool Wise Sayings Sunflower

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."”

“As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.”

Soul Faces Perfect Darkness Fool Moon Spread Curtains Bosoms

Author:Akhenaton

“Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.”

World Faces Religion Religious Darkness Blood Sky Red Dawn Colour Sunset Wizards Restoration Wrecks

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny

“You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.”

Feels Years Littles Made Together Faces Darkness Audience Crazy Stage Hair Ass Necks Appropriate Nuts Memorial Going Crazy

Author:Eric Idle

“A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.”

Source: The Celtic Twilight

“What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.”

Ifs World Firsts Soul Light Faces Darkness Remains Shining Remnants

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.”

Ifs Heart Littles Two Matter Light Seems Faces Dark Rooms Secret Darkness Struggle Weak Enormous Overwhelming Candle Lit Discouraging Battlefields Morbid Dark Room

Author:Jean Vanier

“It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.”

World Humans Ends Self Reality Seems Faces Universe Space Darkness Laughing Hell Wind Madness Absolutes Demon Timeless Spinning Human Faces Cadavers

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.”

Humans Persons Faces Can Do Darkness Journey Weapons Survival Transformation Species Narrative

Author:Chris Abani

“The darkness is a holy of holies of which no one can rob me. In the darkness I meet God face to face.”

Faces Darkness Holy Face To Face

Author:Toyohiko Kagawa

“When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see the face. The face comes in darkness because it would be too beautiful to see. If there were such a thing as a holy person, a god, with a halo around his head, you wouldn't be able to see his face because the beauty would be terrifying.”

Ifs Persons Light Would Be Able Beautiful Faces Darkness Painting Holy Halos Bright Lights

Author:Pat Steir

“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

“It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”

Long Hands Faces Night Sound Darkness Sun Dog Wind Long Time Rain Standing East Sat Distinction Hats Gray Inexplicable

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems

“Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.”

Knows Heart Feelings Faces Suffering Darkness Divine My Heart Stones Sweat Anguish Wretched

Author:Albert Camus

“In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.”

Self Eye Faces Felt Loses Half Darkness Victory Mad Warmth Dictator

Book:Shosha

Source: Shosha

“And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.”

Thinking World Believe Heart May Children Said Faces Water Darkness Sun Air Share This World Sweet Drink Breathe

Author:Douglas Coupland

“We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.”

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

Men Years Firsts Light Earth Faces Left Darkness Fire Taught Brother Years Ago Stakes Howard Roark

Author:Ayn Rand

“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”

Ifs Looks Whole Faces Life Is Views Darkness Our Lives Mystery Band Praise Surface Landscape Idle Leafs Tunnels Choir Miners Right Questions Tracing

Author:Annie Dillard

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”

People Thinking Real Light Faces Fear Enemy Darkness World War Z

Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the noonday's warm sunshine To living lads for mirth and wine. I met you suddenly down the street, Strangers assume your phantom faces, You grin at me from daylight places, Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet Dead men down the morning street.”

Men Long Hands Faces Morning Darkness Streets Mines Mets Wine Lays Assuming Stranger Warm Ghost Ashamed Sunshine Stamps Daylight Old Friends Phantoms Dead Man Lad Mirth

Book:Country Sentiment

Source: Country Sentiment

“I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.”

Men Eye Today Faces Given Forget Darkness Audience Pieces Dying Particular Melancholy Never Forget Concerts Pale Farewell Polish Comrade Bidding

Book:Night

Source: Night

“No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.”

Knows Humans Made Stills Light Faces Spirit Human Beings Lord Darkness Let Me Remains Ignorant Your Face Shed Noon

Author:Saint Augustine

“Daniel's face-- the way it had been bathed in violet light when he'd carried her home this morning-- appeared before her eyes. His gleaming golden hair. His tender, knowing eyes. The way one touch of his lips transported her far away from any darkness. For him, she'd suffer all of this, and more.”

Way Home Light Eye Faces Suffering Morning Darkness Knowing Hair Lips Golden Far Away Her Eyes Violet Golden Hair

Book:The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection

Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection

“"Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record."”

Ifs Wells Said Past Faces Three Wonder Darkness Records Blood Hair Mets Yeah Glad Call Me Jace Bothered Clary Fray Simon Lewis Goth Pandemonium Clary And Jace

Author:Cassandra Clare

“This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.”

“I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.”

Faces Voice Existence Darkness Share Saved Specks Shuddering Stand By Me

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It’s as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world’s all bright and shiny! Too bad you’re not.”

Ifs World Looks Long Seems Faces Walks Grief Darkness Painful Ice Sunshine Sunlight Slap Slap In The Face

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me. I crossed my arms tightly across my chest, my hands balling into fists. I was losing my mind.”

Mind Hands Faces Black Perfect Rooms Darkness Crazy Arms Losing Sitting Impulse Unexpected Chests Inches Amazed Electricity Strokes Overwhelmed Fists Stunned Losing My Mind Perfect Face

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily; but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still. For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back.”