"Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming"
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"Laughing can serve you in dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out."
"The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies."
"In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times."
"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
"Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day."
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
"But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil."
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."
"I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce."
"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."
"A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
"If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."
"The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person."
"For the night is dark and full of terrors."
"Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die."
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
"Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark."
"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine.""