Quotes Tagged "darkness"

My pessimism and cynicism knows no bounds, nothing truly surprises me these days. But when that little spark of optimism, of hope is alight, it burns really brightly in the darkness.

I keep falling deep down into my dark abyss… At some point my abyss will turn into a horizon…

I don’t understand,” Oraeyn whispered hoarsely. “It is not for us to understand,” Ina replied, her face clearing as she listened to Kaitryn. “It is for us to travel to the very edge of the light we are given.” “And then?” Oraeyn asked. A radiant smile beamed across Kaitryn’s face. “And then we jump with swords drawn, a battlecry on our lips, and we beat back the darkness.

Even in the midst of darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.

Let me stand for love. In conflict, let me be peace. In tragedy, let me be hope. In darknes, let me be light. In grief, let me be comfort.

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

When the sun begins rubbing the eastern horizon warm with the first pastel-thin light of a new day, I am reminded that the sun had to let the world go dark before it was sufficiently positioned to make the world become light.

If the candles that I am lighting are those that I have so cleverly crafted, a thousand of them or more amassed together cannot dispel the darkness from which I am forever seeking refuge. Yet, a solitary candle fashioned by God leaves the entire world a place where even the slightest of shadows has no refuge, and my candles no purpose.

Darkness is the place where God is not. Therefore, if I’m sitting in a bunch of darkness I’m living without much of God.

Fundamentalism is rooted in arrogance. It thrives in fear and control and darkness.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

In the darkness I sang all my angels to sleep So that I could awaken this beast inside It’s terrifying the way I am making so much peace with my demons and Cruelty; That I no longer feel any shame to hide …

The moments spent with the beloved are Why, today, there is a loneliness The eyes that illuminated this world Are now gone to light up this sheer darkness

But we’ve spent a lifetime being afraid of making wrong choices that we have never had the guts to make any. We’ve wasted our days worrying about what may happen next that we’ve forgotten to enjoy what’s really happening. We’ve stayed where we should’ve left. We cared for what we had to ignore. And we’ve built many walls around ourselves to an extent that light has never found its way through our darkness. In a matter of fact, our worst enemies and most monstrous demons do live inside us, and they lay right in the back of our heads or in the core of our chests …

She has always been fascinated with silence. For in silence she could sit and breathe nothing but the truth. She senses all the unexpressed feelings, the unsaid words, and the rotten untold stories in her chest. For in silence she embraces her solitude, she puts her pieces back together and creates a world of her own where she’ll always choose to live in and simply enjoy …

What doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger. What breaks you doesn’t make you bolder. In a matter of fact, nothing becomes stronger or better if it has been broken or shattered; Because a piece of you is always going to be missing, less trusting in any other soul, and those heart and mind of yours will always receive some messages from your past to chain you into the darkness once again. Bad times, knockouts, and disappointments have made no one any stronger, so don’t fool yourself of thinking otherwise …

She was sitting there in silence when I interrupted her glooming halo but she couldn’t feel my existence though. She didn’t cry, she didn’t scream, she didn’t even blame one single person for the shit they put her through. “I didn’t deserve this ...’ she said while chocking her trembling voice. And I stood there wondering how such few words could be full of so much darkness, disappointment, and brokenness that they ached me to the core...