You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson

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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

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I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light. ― Katherine Center

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ― Sarah Williams

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Sir Francis Bacon

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