Gathering Darkness Quotes

#1. The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

Winston Churchill

#2. Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

Alain De Botton

#3. Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Albert Schweitzer

#4. Society, you're a crazy breed.

Eddie Vedder

#5. You seem rather obsessed with Magnus. Perhaps next time I should try to arrange a meeting between the two of you instead.

Morgan Rhodes

#6. Those who fear darkness have never seen what the light can do.

Magic The Gathering

#7. Fear and intimidation are tactics that work very well on those who allow themselves to be afraid and intimidated.

Morgan Rhodes

#8. Imagine the people you fear and dislike as pivotal characters in a fascinating and ultimately redemptive plot that will take years or even lifetimes for the Divine to elaborate.

Rob Brezsny

#9. We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. Alyosha later wrote down. Sometimes he stopped speaking altogether, as if gathering his strength, and gasped for breath, yet he seemed to be in ecstasy. He was listened to with great feeling, though many wondered at his words and saw darkness in them

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

Barry Hughart

#13. The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology.

Maurice Levy

#14. While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger

Jack Straw

#15. To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Soren Kierkegaard

#16. I've lived in Los Angeles for over 70 years.

Jerry Perenchio

#17. I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Doseone

#18. Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.

Divine G.

#19. Magnus had come to a horrible realization. One that he knew would cause him nothing but pain and suffering from that day forward.
But there was no changing the truth of it.
He had fallen in love with her.

Morgan Rhodes

#20. I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

J. August Richards

#21. [R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, "I don't know," and then experimenting with relaxing a bit into this not knowing instead of condemning yourself for it. After all, in this moment, it may be an accurate statement of how things are for you.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#22. While some American education experts may say that all learning should be 'fun,' I personally believe that the word "fun' is the wrong word to use. Learning should be challenging, meaningful, rigorous, engrossing, interesting, and satisfying.

Maya Thiagarajan

#23. He that is not with me is against me (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position; there is no middle ground!

Ken Ham