"After darkness comes the light."

-- Cornelius Nepos

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.”
“There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.”
“I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and you're writing it, and you're ingesting it, sometimes a single word just comes up over and over and over again. And if you're trying to capture the essence of what it is you're trying to tell, you don't have a whole lot of space.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.”
“Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.147, Penguin
“I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.”
“You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.”

Source : "Ed Sabol, Founder Of NFL Films, Dies At 98" by Sam Sanders, knkx.org. February 9, 2015.
“It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”

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