Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
– Susan Cooper
Related Quotes:
- Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within – Goitsemang Mvula
- If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver! – IR Shankar
- But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. – John Updike
- [On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door. – Janna Cachola
- Maybe…just maybe, the light can reach even the bottom of a dark ocean. – Arima Kousei
- maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside – James Patterson
- Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. – Susan Abulhawa
- Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur. – Michael Chabon
- Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that’s okay. – Keith Ablow
- It must be hard for people who only knew darkness not to be blinded by the light – Melita Tessy
- If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The sunlight blinded her. She felt purified by its rays. She had been in the dark for so long, and in so many ways.☥ Children of Ankh series – Kim Cormack
- Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I think about how maybe it’s not things that change but people that change, and maybe that’s the change everyone is really talking about. – Susan Pogorzelski
- Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. – Shannon L Alder
- Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time. – Susan Ee
- How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others. – Marty Rubin
- our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life – Erich Maria Remarque
- It doesn’t pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man’s ideas. – Mark Lawrence
- Men did stupid things when they got romantic ideas in their heads. – Ronie Kendig
- You don’t have to reach for the stars if you are already shining like one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In Dark Places, May we Never be truly Alone…..~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books – Susan Schroder
- But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. – Susan Sontag
- Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. – Dwight D Eisenhower
- All art moves between the extremes. – Jan Fries
- It’s either perfect, or it’s the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!) – Felicia Day
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. – George Eliot
- I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness. – Fennel Hudson
- Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. – Roy Blount Jr
- I couldn’t escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain. – Samantha Summers
- I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. – Charles Bukowski
- Extremes should be avoided. – Billy Graham
- Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. – Criss Jami
- You can’t possibly judge your ability to control something until you’ve experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? – Richard Russo
- The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas. – Harmon Okinyo
- People don’t have ideas, ideas have people. – Paul B Rainey
- You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by. – Lemony Snicket
- Death chose each of us – both Dark and Light – for a reason. There can’t be Light without Dark or Dark without Light. – Donna Grant
- Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn’t have to become who we are. – Mary E Pearson
- Maybe she loved me,maybe not -“who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart -“it’s that dark. – Gregory Orr