Pastoral Resources

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.