#darkness

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground. ↗

— Martin Gore

#darkness #i #like #their #underground

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#anything #darkness #fast #faster #finds

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#drive-out #hate #inspirational #light #love

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#darkness #develops #like #photograph

There is no darkness but ignorance. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ignorance

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#darkness #france #got #hate #known

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#enlightenment #eyes #gaze #meaning #meaning of

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#darkness #direction #feels #find #god

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gollum #hobbit #riddle #life