“… only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.”
David Eddings book King of the Murgos
Source: King of the Murgos
“Only darkness could not be held off by the will of men.”
— Andre Norton, book Storm Over Warlock
Source: Storm Over Warlock (1960), Chapter 7, “Unwelcome Guide” (p. 67)
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Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
Source: "On Today's Scene: Paige Admits He's Feeling His Age" by William Gildea, The Washington Post (Apr 29, 1969), p. D2
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The Masque of the Red Death
"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842).
Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End
Guardian Angel, p. 220
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Source: Childhood's End
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 132.
“The assembled souls of all that men held wise.”
William Davenant book Gondibert
Gondibert (1650), Book ii. Canto v. Stanza 37.
“If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men”
XVIII. 107–110 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Context: If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men
and anger that drives the sanest man to flare in outrage—
bitter gall, sweeter than dripping streams of honey,
that swarms in people's chests and blinds like smoke.