Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
Education is the master key to greatness; without it, a child would be faced with the darkness of a future that's full of uncertainties.
No matter how dark your current phase of life is, never stop believing that bigger and better blessings are already on the way.
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.
