#darkness

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

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ↗

— Coventry Patmore

#courage #darkness #deny #him #light

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#asleep #beautiful #darkness #death #dying

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been. ↗

— William Kunstler

#blanket #came #chambers #darkness #federal

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#darkness #lump #minutes #pair #son

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#come #darkness #first #gazing #great

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. ↗

— John Ruskin

#darkness #lest #light #upon #walk

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗