Best darkness & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”

“Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.”

Persons Stills Wisdom Fall Evil Darkness Hell Wise Empty Deeds Karma Endless Commit Release Emptiness Sinner Conception No Hope Bad Karma

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.”

Ifs Hard Moments Dream Eye Night Fall Sleep Darkness Doors Feet Wall Beats Casts Sail Costumes Our Dreams

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.”

“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

“A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.”

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“It's something I deal with to this day, a fear of falling back into that darkness. I see athletes go through a similar thing. ... With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.”

Fall Sports Levels Deals Darkness Understood Athlete Endurance This Day Endurance Sports

Author:Clara

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

Artist Fall Actors Hours Memories Silence Darkness Stage Produce Divine Poet Musician Evidence Theater Missions Painter Curtains Sculptors

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.”

“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”

Done Fall Millions Darkness Blind Deeds Seeds Eden

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead”

Long Running Night Fall Darkness Cold Shapes Rivers Crosses Slavery Terror Hunters Blackness Hounds Lanterns Beckoning

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.”

Light Form Fall Given Dark Results Quality Darkness Areas Locals Tone Affected Inherent Lightness Light And Dark

Author:Nathan Goldstein

“When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.”

People Real Moments Earth Past Night Fall Cities Darkness Sky Draws Lonely Visible Gray Floating Snowflake Brief Moments

Book:Psalm at Journey's End

Source: Psalm at Journey's End

“People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.”

People Thinking Fall Darkness

Author:Amy Chan

“Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.”

Years Soul Light Fall Sides Darkness Slavery Torture Nineteen Rise And Fall

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables

“The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.”

Thinking World Firsts Long Enough Light Fall Father Felt Hours Dark Darkness Childhood My Friends Died Cycles Call Me Sunrise Bats Fleeting Owl Father Died My Father Died

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.”

“We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.”

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Author:John Reuben Zappin

“The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls.”

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Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum. To oppose them, to suggest that one category excludes the other, always feels bogus to me. The great Leonard Michaels line is "I wanted proximity to darkness, strangeness"? That's what I'd say I want from a book, regardless of where it falls on the fantastical spectrum - that suspense connected to a particular human character, rather than just some mechanized plot.”

Thinking Book Character Fall Decision Darkness Fantasy Marketing

Author:Karen Russell

“We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.”

Knows Spiritual Fall Darkness Failure Self Improvement Inner Peace Fallen Enlightened Spiritual Darkness

Book:Thoughts In Solitude

Source: Thoughts In Solitude

“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.”

Kind Character Fall Darkness Journey Goes On Discovery Temptation Classic Meant To Be Life Journey Ulysses

Author:Robert Redford

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”

Life Persons War Light Fall Darkness Light And Darkness Rise And Fall

Author:Stefan Zweig

“To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.”

Matter Fall Silence Darkness Sky Quiet Rain Noise Dust Preserves Grain Parades Fertile Tramps

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.”

“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

Lasts Night Fall Darkness Blood Gay Red Died Clock Flames Halls Thieves Decay Dominion Posture Expired Tripods

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.”

Would Be Age Together Artist Humanity Fall Darkness Forever Poet Civilization Seasons Chaos Determine Features Reign Conform Falling Apart Edits

Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

“And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”

Knows World Looks Has Beens Ends Light Moving Night Fall Universe Stars Darkness Seeing Air Sky Balls Finished Billions Faster Look Up Thrown Centre Slow Down Halt Cosmology Blazing Exploding

Author:Mark Haddon

“Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.”

Two Moments Fall Sound Silence Darkness Dying Rain Ultimate Ears Absolutes Pity Borders Roof Without Love Umbrella Sirens Vibrate Rain Falling

Book:The Heart of The Matter

Source: The Heart of The Matter

“If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness”

Ifs Want Fall White Darkness Please Falling Down Please Me

Author:Geraldine McCaughrean

“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”

Fall Stars Darkness Sky Building Filled Sunset Site Blueprints

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you”

Knows Mean Light Fall Names Stars Darkness Pure Hungry Strokes Dwelling Dwelling Place

Author:Wayne Thomas Batson

“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”

“Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.”

Thinking Way I Can Ends Sometimes Matter Choices Fall Evil Pleasure Darkness Struggle Trouble Worst Bottom Climbs Pits Indulgence

Book:The Scapegoat

Source: The Scapegoat

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.”

Ifs Looks Eye Night Fall Black Lines Cities Behinds Darkness Sun Fire Sky Clouds Heavy East Burning Smoke Dawn Fallen Rising Sunset Horizon Thick Unseen Curtains Blanket Lifting Wool

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”

Night Fall Darkness Cry Cried

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”

May Whole Night Fall Stars Water Hurt Walks Secret Silence Darkness Rocks Sweet Wind Offers Rain Track Bitter Valleys Unjust Herbs Footprint Stumbling

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

Thinking Men Needs Years Made Pain Past Lying Fall Speak Realizing Rooms Grief Silence Darkness Four Wife Hair Horror Skins Response Appearance Violent Four Years Strokes Unpredictable Curls

Author:Sara Gruen

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”

Men Heart Ends Fall Lord Darkness Wise Air Innocence Piggy

Author:William Golding

“Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.”

Humans Hands Light Dies Fall Left Darkness Divine Universal Shining Chaos Dare Flames Empires Sparks Dread Glimpse Curtains

Author:Alexander Pope

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

Heart Kind Stills Mother Fall Causes Family Darkness Trouble Mom Return Adversity Clouds Prosperity Heavy My Mom Motherhood Trials Desert Hard Times Endeavor Mum Mothers Day Tough Times Best Friend Truest Being A Mom Your Mom Being A Mother Mothering Mother Daughter Happy Mothers Day Mother Love Mother's Love Best Mother Mother And Son Your Mum Great Mother Mom And Daughter Inspirational Mothers Mother Proverbs Mothers Day Inspirational Inspirational Motherhood True Best Friend Love For My Mother Good Happy Mothers Day Just A Mom Inspiring Motherhood Mothers Day Messages Short Mothers Day Best Mom Great Mom Losing Friends Mother Flower Mom Knows Best Mother Son Inspirational Mom Greatest Mom Joys Of Motherhood Happy Mothers Day Greetings Greatest Mothers Day Mother Son Relationship Motherhood And Love Mothers Day Love Sentimental Mother Mother Son Inspirational Special Mother Wonderful Mother Touching Mother Beautiful Mother And Daughter Beloved Mother

Author:Washington Irving

“and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.”

Ifs Way May Sometimes Fall Found Darkness Broken Glory Stronger Fallen Brighter Stronger Than Before

Author:Mark Helprin

“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”

People Fall Space Darkness Tree Sky Reaching Furniture Pouring Puzzled Shrubs

Book:The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Source: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.”

May Ends Moments Light Night Fall Stars Darkness Source All Things Rounds Raindrops

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.”

“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”

Stills Fall Stars Darkness Alive Ready Summer Not Ready Standstill

Author:Tove Jansson

“I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.”

Feels Whole Moments Fall Next Process Darkness Starting Forgotten Instant Confused Repeats Sensations Climbing Cliffs Landing

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“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.”

“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”

Looks Light Night Fall Stars Darkness Sky Billions Look Up Blazing

Book:Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play

Source: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play

“In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Dream Happens Fall Sides Wonder Darkness Forever Wall Cold Mouths Scared Sensations Scream Ceilings

Book:The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls

Source: The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls

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