#darkness

...the miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. ↗

— Jean Paul

#darkness #death #dying #evening #like

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #life #light #loss #tragedy

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#aids #appearance #better #building #clearer

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark. ↗

— Melissa Andrea

#fear #fears #inspiring #see #seeing

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#being #darkness #despite #hope #light

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#beyond #darkness #doubt #falsehood #light

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#both #darkness #eclipse #glory #go

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. ↗

— William Hague

#darkness #end #hope #lived #long

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light