Emilie Autumn Quotes

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Love can sun the realms of night.

Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Love is proved in the letting go.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.