Surviving Darkness Quotes & Sayings

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the "imagetext" incarnate — W. J. T. Mitchell

The ability to try to understand existence, the ability to try to recognize the wonder and responsibility of one's own existence, the ability to know even fractionally the almost annihilating beauty, ambiguity, darkness, and horror which swarm every instant of every consciousness, the ability to try to accept it, or the ability to try to defend one's self, or the ability to dare to try to assist others; all such as these, of which most human beings are cheated of their potentials, are, in most of those who even begin to discern or wish for them, the gifts or thefts of economic privilege, and are available to members of these leanest classes only by the rare and irrelevant miracle of born and surviving 'talent. — James Agee

I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die. — John Donne

Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing.
"Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged.
"What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?"
"Why would she do that?"
"Are you saying she wouldn't?"
He sighed. "Go check it. — Richelle Mead

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm
a sliver of light buried in the darkness. — Norman Ollestad

Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there. — Abhijit Naskar

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse. — Angela Merkel

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too. — Paul Keating

No one wants to pay for a cure for cancer, but Heaven forbid a man lose his hair or an erection. — Wesley Chu