Dimitri Diakovasiliou > Dimitri's Quotes

“You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.”
― Drew Myron, Thin Skin

“A misstep many make: they mistake darkness for meaning. They think light is easy. They think light will find a way through the crack in the door by itself. But it doesn't - you have to open the door & let it in.”
― Melanie Gideon Wife 22

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path.”
― A. Mani, Sun Stealer: Hidden Anomaly

“They could not handle my Light. Now, They will have to deal with my darkness.”
― A. Mani

“I'm different. I will give you my treasure chest of darkness first. If you can handle that, then I'll bring out my shining moons. If one cannot handle the darkness, then one should not deserve the light. I have no interest in "trapping" anyone into a silken web. I have no silken web.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls.”
― Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing

“When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the things that they hate, all that does is eat away at the soul. Define the things that you believe in based upon the pursuit of the the things that you love and then that love should be able to override all those things that you hate.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.”
― Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti

“When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey.”
― Mark W Boyer

“I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark

“I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.”
― Charles Lee

“You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in darkness when the sun is gone and nothing is going well.”
― Therese May

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”
― Gerard Way

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
― Anais Nin

“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anais Nin

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
― Leland Val Van De Wall

“There is no illusion greater than fear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”
― Robert Brault

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”
― Robert Brault

“It certainly inhibits a man's desire to change companies for a better job. Thus, it is at least a minor pressure against free-spirited enterprise. All the benefits exert pressure, too. There is nothing sinister about them, since admittedly they are for your own material comfort -- and isn't that supposed to be one of the goals of mankind? What happens is that, as the years go by, the temptation to strike out on your own or take another job becomes less and less. Gradually you become accustomed to the Utopian drift. Soon another inhibition may make you even more amenable. If you have been in easy circumstances for a number of years, you feel that you are out of shape. Even in younger men the hard muscle of ambition tends to go slack, and you hesitate to take a chance in the jungle again.”
― Alan Harrington

“You're forgetting about God.

He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“We each have within ourselves the ability to shape our own destinies. That much we understand. But, more important, each of us has an equal ability to shape the destiny of the universe. Ah, that you find more difficult to believe. But I tell you it is so. You do not have to be the leader of the Council. You do not have to be king or monarch or the head of a clan to have a significant impact on the world around you.
In the vastness of the ocean, is any drop of water greater than another?
No, you answer, and neither has a single drop the ability to cause a tidal wave.
But, I argue, if a single drop falls into the ocean, it creates ripples. And these ripples spread. And perhaps - who knows - these ripples may grow and swell and eventually break foaming upon the shore.
Like a drop in the vast ocean, each of us causes ripples as we move through our lives. The effects of whatever we do - insignificant as it may seem - spread out beyond us. We may never know what far-reaching impact even the simplest action might have on our fellow mortals. Thus we need to be conscious, all of the time, of our place in the ocean, of our place in the world, of our place among our fellow creatures.
For if enough of us join forces, we can swell the tide of events - for good or for evil.”
― Margaret Weis, The Seventh Gate

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl