Top 88 After Darkness Quotes
#1. There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.
Rumi
#2. Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?
Helen McCloy
#3. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but still you choose to believe that the night will last forever.
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#5. People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Harmony will prevail. After darkness, there will be light. The light cannot come without the darkness. Better days are bound to come now.
Sook Nyul Choi
#8. After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!
Obafemi Awolowo
#9. When he came back, he fed the fire, rolled out his pallet, turned off the light and laid down. After several minutes of quiet darkness, she heard his voice. "Sorry if I scared you. I don't roar that often."
-Ian to Marcie
Robyn Carr
#10. Maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us
Mary Oliver
#11. It feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the sun and after that you're dragged down into the darkness again
Salman Rushdie
#12. From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.
Jodi Picoult
#13. Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.
Tyler Hamilton
#14. The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.
Gerald L. Sittser
#15. First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. - Journal of the Whills, 7:477
Alan Dean Foster
#16. Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.
Stephen Colbert
#17. Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars - always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight. "And
Irvin D. Yalom
#18. After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
Helen Steiner Rice
#19. Some goodness in this world is understood by the presence of the opposite. One will value light in the middle of darkness, and appreciate clemency by encountering savagery. Likewise, a meeting is properly indulged after having known the devastating account of goodbye.
Aishah Madadiy
#20. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?
Peggy Toney Horton
#21. I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.
Cornell Woolrich
#22. To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#24. Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.
Peter Ackroyd
#25. the most powerful faith of all is faith that is lost and found again after a journey through profound darkness, despair, and cosmic abandonment.
Harvey L. Schwartz
#26. Other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#27. After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.
Marie Lu
#28. Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
Natsuki Takaya
#29. And behind it all I saw the ineffable malignity of primordial necromancy, black and amorphous, and fumbling greedily after me in the darkness to choke out the spirit that had dared to mock it by emulation.
H.P. Lovecraft
#30. Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
Yann Martel
#31. After centuries of darkness
fish may lose their vision,
and happy in the still pool
will forget that light was once their day.
Barry Pomeroy
#32. Sometimes great change happens only after the worst change occurs. Negativity can be the start point of positivity. Destruction can lead to creation. It's not hopeless; darkness is the birthplace of hope.
Emily Maroutian
#33. As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.
Mark Helprin
#34. After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done.
Ani San
#35. Basil would never go for this - me chasing after an accused murderer in the darkness. He says there's nothing wrong with me, but it's entirely possible he hasn't been paying enough attention.
Lauren DeStefano
#36. Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?
Girdhar Joshi
#37. But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.
Annie Dillard
#38. That simple touch felt like stars springing to life inside of me after years of living in darkness.
Jessie Humphries
#39. When human pain has struck me fiercely, when anger has corroded me, I rise, I always rise after the crucifixion, and I am in terror of my ascensions. THE FISSURE IN REALITY. The divine departure. I fall. I fall into darkness after the collusion with pain, and after pain the divine departure.
Anais Nin
#40. Hearing her voice was like seeing the sun after weeks of darkness.
Jordan Silver
#41. He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.
"You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.
Neil Gaiman
#42. Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
Stephen King
#43. What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
John Updike
#44. We're pretty because we forget how light leaves us--rather, we almost forgive the darkness that comes loping after.
Susanna Mishler
#45. Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe.
Peter F. Hamilton
#46. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
Lang Leav
#47. After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes.
Harriet Reuter Hapgood
#48. I finally realized that it's possible to love within a space that sometimes holds nothing but emptiness.. or nothing but darkness.
After all, we all have darkness within us.
Some of us more than others.
T.M. Frazier
#49. The lamps in one street after another were lighted till it seemed to him that a pervading darkness, like some demon, was keeping its eyes wide open to watch every movement of its victim.
Rabindranath Tagore
#50. You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith.
Robert Alexander
#51. My choices matter - and there are paths towards making wiser ones - but I cannot choose what I choose. And if it ever appears that I do - for instance, after going back between two options - I do not choose to choose what I choose. There is a regress here that always ends in darkness.
Sam Harris
#52. So many Chimaerae," Nine says, nodding excitedly as he gazes into the darkness. "That's awesome."
"We named the chubby, lazy one after you," Sam replies.
"Less awesome.
Pittacus Lore
#53. In darkness, in any light after dusk, you can slit a vein and the blood is black.
Michael Ondaatje
#54. I had accepted that all the dark memories were mine. But I had never realized that the beautiful ones were mine too. I had a right to them. And the right to embrace them, regardless of what happened before and after. I had a right to my happiness, as well as my grief.
Linda Olsson
#55. But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave.
Virginia Woolf
#56. We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow ... of the Moon.
Eugene Cernan
#57. After a minute he said, It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that ... except you.
L.J.Smith
#58. I'll never forget Jonah's face. A light poured out of him and became the spirit of the room, like a genie released from a bottle after centuries of darkness.
Natalie Standiford
#59. I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.
Erin Morgenstern
#60. 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
#61. It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come
Malcolm X
#62. As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.
Miguel Serrano
#63. The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn't see it, and after a while, you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct.
Haruki Murakami
#64. I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling, light broke and relief fell. My cramped existence all at once spread out to a plain without bounds ...
Charlotte Bronte
#65. Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn't mean they should.
Kelly Moran
#66. The languid transition from soft, pink-orange sunlight to deep blue darkness clashed with the clusterfuck that was my emotions.
Dan Elconin
#67. I think what I'm after, a lot of the time, is just honesty. What accounts for the fact that the stories we tell ourselves - the story we carry around and think of most often - are the dark ones? Maybe we have to wander around in the darkness to understand it?
Peter Orner
#68. That's how pathetic things had gotten. I'd actually sat alone in the darkness lusting after a girl like some fucking Robert Pattinson wannabe. At least I smoked instead of sparkled.
Joanna Wylde
#69. We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.
Paule Marshall
#70. After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover ... in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.
Michel Foucault
#71. Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.
Oswald Chambers
#72. Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.
Erica Alex
#73. She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.
John Green
#74. Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Irvin D. Yalom
#75. Oy opened his eyes - they were bright in the darkness - then winked at Jake. After that, he appeared to go back to sleep. Jake
Stephen King
#76. You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Robert Plant
#77. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.
Denise Levertov
#78. Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.
Russell Hoban
#79. Way my mama used to tell me, a girl what lusts after a man falls prey to the forces of darkness. The rougarou ain't just a wolfman but a punishment sent by God to ravage a girl in the night, and if she survives she becomes one herself.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#80. The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.
Joseph Conrad
#81. I needed to channel the darkness that ran through my veins and embrace it. To play this game better than this man ever could have predicted. After all, I'd only been with him twice, and already I could see his weakness.
His weakness was me.
A. Zavarelli
#82. Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose - though we may not understand it - and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!
Margaret Weis
#83. Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
#84. After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
Wendell Berry
#85. What do they sing, the last birds
coasting down the twilight,
banking
across woods filled with darkness, their
frayed wings
curved on the world like a lover's arms
which form, night after night, in sleep,
an irremediable absence?
Galway Kinnell
#86. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
Rebecca West
#87. I love you. I've loved you from the beginning. And I will love you long after the last stars dies. I will love you until the end of darkness itself.
Laura Thalassa
#88. She went away, and the fireflies, on their electric circuits, fluttered after her like an errant constellation, showing her how to walk in darkness. I heard her say, faintly, "We've got to try, anyway.
Ray Bradbury
