All Quotes By Tag: Darkness

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me – the humiliation of it – as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.”

“He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.”

“Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject’s roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.”

“When you look at the external reality, you may assume you know everything, but when you close your eyes and try to look into the darkness of your internal reality, all the knowledge of the external life fails to create a way out of the darkness.”

“Brightness of day always end with the darkness of Night”

“Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.”

“When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.”

“Ignorance is a very useful weapon in the hands of the devil against humanity, especially Christians.”

“There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.”

“The price of ignorance is way more than the price we would have paid to acquire knowledge.”

“The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction.”

“Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it.”

“If it is God’s business, then it should be your business.”

“Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.”