Darkness Surrounds Quotes

#1. A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him.

Rumi

#2. When Darkness surrounds you, look for the stars. When Jealousy whispers, kill it with laughter. When Hate hurts you, love with all your strength.

M.J. Abraham

#3. If darkness surrounds you, look for the light. If you can't see it, raise your head up. You may be surrounded by darkness but it does not cover you on top. Let the light shine down on you and let it lead the way out of darkness.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#4. Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

Elisabeth Elliot

#5. Don't forget the light when darkness surrounds you

Eva Lucia

#6. Where death follows, there's life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you'll eventually find the light.

Lee Argus

#7. Hush now, my dear one ... be not afraid. Night comes upon us, but sunlight will break. Sleep now, my dear one ... let your tears fade. Darkness surrounds us, but someday we'll wake ...

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

Fida Islaih

#9. the darkness of the summer slowly unfurling, never to be completely gone, but fading to become no more than a part of the life that surrounds it.

Georgia Blain

#10. There is a darkness that surrounds some, and controls others.

Cindy O'Quinn

#11. How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

Patience Strong

#13. Your love is the light that will drive away all the darkness that surrounds you.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Nathaniel Branden

#15. Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights!

Yukio Mishima

#16. Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

John Strachan

#17. Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.

Daniel Suarez

#18. We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Paul McCartney

#19. What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be
let me be a woman?

Elisabeth Elliot

#20. Darkness resides in us all; but when it surrounds us, closes in on us, it's the only time when we truly know the power of our light.

Robert Storey

#21. The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

Silvertris

#22. No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

Samuel Freeman Miller

#23. Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Madeleine L'Engle

#24. Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Robert Boyle

#25. I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

Jessye Norman

#26. One thing - one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.

William H Gass

#27. This, it seems to me, is the lesson of the Bible: this affirmation of the importance of reflection, and of revision, enough revision to do away with the tired, old, even faulty laws.

Chinelo Okparanta

#28. Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#29. Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.

W.G. Sebald