#darkness

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ↗

— Hannah More

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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. ↗

— Robert Plant

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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize. ↗

— Little Richard

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When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems. ↗

— Jan Berry

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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation. ↗

— Famke Janssen

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. ↗

— Helen Keller

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