Darkness To Light Quotes (page 2)

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• life
• light
• self

When life descends into the pit. I must become my own candle. Willingly burning my self. To light up the darkness around me. Alice Walker

• dark
• light
• drinking

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her."Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me."The big show is inside my head," I said. Kurt Vonnegut

• dark
• light
• sometimes

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. Terry Prachett

• dark
• light
• partly

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• light
• balance
• dark

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself. Elizabeth Gilbert

• dark
• light
• stick

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie

• people
• play
• influence

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? Kirk Douglas

• light
• character
• painting

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. John Hurt

• dark
• light
• sometimes

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. Terry Prachett

• beauty
• world
• light

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. Joy Page

• dark
• light
• than

There's more to light than the opposite of dark. Ric Ocasek

• dark
• light
• candle

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Eleanor Roosevelt

• hope
• crying
• night

Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, Who? Who? Thomas Pynchon

• light
• education
• exercise

Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right thing without knowing it, as some could. Shirley Hazzard

• time
• dark
• light

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness. Friedrich Nietzsche