Quotes - Mona (ramona_govender) (Durban, KZN, South Africa) Showing 1-30 of 123

#1

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

3789 likes

#2

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth

2749 likes

#3

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed

1834 likes

#4

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

1163 likes

#6

“Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

824 likes

#7

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

947 likes

#8

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”
― Stephen King

tags: darkness

663 likes

#9

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

tags: darkness, light, perspective

899 likes

#10

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: darkness, poetry, sadness

482 likes

#11

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

tags: darkness, growth

552 likes

#12

“Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.”
― Margaret Stohl

tags: beautiful-darkness, darkness, hope

174 likes

#13

“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: darkness

443 likes

#14

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

2667 likes

#15

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

tags: darkness, poetry, sorrow

827 likes

#16

“Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”
― Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

tags: darkness

177 likes

#17

“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”
― Louise Rennison , Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

tags: humor

202 likes

#18

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, moon, stars, sun

2400 likes

#19

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: stars, sun

206 likes

#20

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: sun, time

173 likes

#21

“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

tags: love, stars, sun

101 likes

#22

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: faith, fate, fear

3288 likes

#23

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

tags: life, love, sky, sun

2760 likes

#24

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

1915 likes

#25