A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julian Green
Related A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky... JULIEN GREEN We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. FERNANDO PESSOA Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of lea... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. TAHEREH MAFI Sky is proud of its bright stars; earth is proud of its bright minds! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A face without freckles is like a sky without stars. UNKNOWN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infin... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to s... TIMOTHY NORR She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap... NEIL GAIMAN Old stars fade, new stars light up the sky ALLEN JOHNSON True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It ... JIM BISHOP I refuse to shine upon a dark world, because any light which dares to cast its rays forth into the v... JUSTIN APPEL The world turns softly
Not to spill its lakes and rivers,
The water is held in its arms
... HILDA CONKLING Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.' 'I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No... JOSS STIRLING The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with... DEAN KOONTZ I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of ... PAUL BOGARD There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its s... BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. J.K. ROWLING Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing your... KEVYN AUCOIN A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a... MEGHAN O'ROURKE We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. BLACK KETTLE And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the cons... M.L. STEDMAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of... GEORGE H. W. BUSH We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of... GEORGE W. BUSH I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars RABINDRANATH TAGORE Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night. SHARON WEIL Don’t resent the sky for its storms; rejoice at the sky for its rainbows. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma... JIMMY WALKER Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night witho... ATHARVA VEDA The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ... ALICE OSWALD Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
... JOHN LOGAN A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's a reason why stars can only exist in the sky -- they're just rockets of light traveling thro... KATIE KACVINSKY Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, howe... MARKUS ZUSAK And then I realized that love is like a helium balloon. You know the one which flies away into the s... SAPAN SAXENA And the wand-like lily which lifted up,
As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup,
Till the fier... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up... JAMES ALTUCHER To some, beautiful can mean a field with flowers, birds, trees, green grass and a clear blue sky, an... RENE ALARCON Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity. RICK PERRY You're not limited to the sky as seen from the Earth. You can actually go up into the sky and fly th... MARK WEBB Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whisperi... MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact ... ALEXANDER MACLAREN There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine! CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially cont... MICHELANGELO Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO He floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his ... JANDY NELSON Stars look like people to me... They are surrounded by darkness... But they all gather together and ... SS038NICK I'm chasing my dreams straight to the top, into a sky that has no limits. ROBERT M. HENSEL As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet into the night’s velvet slippers SANOBER KHAN Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it... JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to p... LAUREN OLIVER She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the ... NEIL GAIMAN How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other. MARILYN MANSON ...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying ... CRISS JAMI For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has it... GEORGE GISSING Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pret... TOM PETERS We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried th... SOURCE UNKNOWN The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its c... SAID NURSI Be a star in someone's dark sky. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. QURAN Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom. CAROL WEEKES Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky. NEIL GAIMAN There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or... L. M. MONTGOMERY I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,... E.E. CUMMINGS Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the... JACK TEMPCHIN Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to it... JULES VERNE Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than... TAHEREH MAFI How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded... HOWARD BLOOM The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, b... ALLAN MAYER And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green. THOMAS HOOD Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. I... TERRY PRATCHETT A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. H... JENNIFER ARNETT Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts,... FAITH BALDWIN When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t... SALMAN RUSHDIE Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go o... L.M. MONTGOMERY No matter how dark is the night or how cloudy is the sky! YOU CAN STILL SHINE LITTLE START!.. PHILIP T. M. Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. JACK KEROUAC The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asund... FRANCIS BACON You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take ... JOCELYN DAVIES What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN I hyperventilate quite a lot. CARA DELEVINGNE The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble w... ROSEMARY MAHONEY The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding gla... RICHARD JEFFERIES I felt as if Hafez Al Assad was talking! He has send a clear message to his people, Arabs and the wh... ABU AHMED If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasonin... ABHIJIT NASKAR A sun without a sky is still a star SARA STRAIN Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a wor... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR
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JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A... JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr... JULIAN SANDS 'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly. JULIAN OVENDEN