darkness Quotes

“There is a romance about all who are abroad in the black hours, and with something of a thrill we try to guess their business.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”

― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing what ever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is...”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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“They say that rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

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“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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