#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

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

#darkness #gate #genius #gleam #inhabitant

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

#darkness #distant #feel #front #great

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. ↗

— Pythagoras

#created #darkness #evil #good #light

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#darkness #depth #descend #exact #exact measure

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

— Jan Berry

#comes #darkness #eye #far #far away

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

#between #bible #bright #cannot #consolations

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#all things #center #created #darkness #god

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

— Helen Keller

#darkness #even #everything #i #learn

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