Top 100 Dark But Light Quotes
#1. Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.
Thomas Cogswell Upham
#2. You can put the girl in a relationship ... ," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.
Jocelyn Davies
#3. But a lot of the time that's how it works, life gets so dark until we think all the light's gone out of us. But it's there, it's always there. If we just open the door a crack the light comes pouring in.
Ben Fountain
#4. Why do the same people who believe in those deities doubt the existence of darker spirits? I ask all of you, how can a person believe in the light but not the dark?
John Searles
#5. Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place.
Jeffrey Fry
#6. Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.
Ally Condie
#7. To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.
Estelle
#9. Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
Nick Gordon
#10. It may be all dark now, but it will soon be light; it may be all trial now, but it will soon be all happiness. What matters it though "weeping may endure for a night," when "joy cometh in the morning?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#11. Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Carla H. Krueger
#12. Don't be afraid of the dark, Cas. But don't let them tell you that everything that's there in the dark is also there in
the light. It isn't.
Kendare Blake
#13. Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.
Xi Jinping
#14. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#15. Only from dark coal tunnels white diamonds come, but only by the light are they recognised.
Akiane Kramarik
#16. The room was dark and velvety from the royal blue wallpaper with its gold pattern, but even here the echo of the flaming day shimmered brassily on the picture frames, on doorknobs and glided borders, although it came through the filter of the dense greenery of the garden.
Bruno Schulz
#17. There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing
light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
Jodi Picoult
#18. Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.
Rebecca Stead
#19. The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?
Elif Shafak
#20. [Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.
Nayantara Sahgal
#21. They don't really know him, not the dark and scary parts, but then again they don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness. Only he embraces the darkness inside of me and turns it into love and light.
Tara Brown
#22. Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.
Gautama Buddha
#23. It is better to light a candle than complain about the dark'
Ancient Spiritual wisdom now attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but I have read it elsewhere.
Unknown
#24. I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
Libba Bray
#25. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton
#26. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
Woodrow Wilson
#27. At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.
C. G. Jung
#28. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#29. The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
Tanith Lee
#30. The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#31. You do. Because of who you are. What you are. One half brimming with dark curiosities and a fierce appetite for all things mad. But the other half whimsy and light - filled with courage and loyalty.
A.G. Howard
#32. Father lied.
The knowledge tasted bitter on her tongue. She folded the
orb into a scarf she'd brought. It didn't conceal its light, but it was
better than carrying the orb through the halls exposed.
Jennifer M. Zeiger
#33. But someone once told me, you cannot climb a well from the middle, you must fall right to the bottom. Once you are there, in the cold, alone and ankle deep in slime, you'll look up and you'll get a real sense of the dark and the work involved to climb towards the light, the truth.
Salena Godden
#34. Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.
James Elkins
#35. It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.
Geraldine Brooks
#36. Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.
A.D. Posey
#37. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.
Anonymous
#39. The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.
Gu Cheng
#40. Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
San Juan De La Cruz
#41. It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.
Brittany Snow
#42. Rough and dark is often the veil of the soul, while within, so pure and transparent. Like the grey crust upon ice, that, when severed, reveals within a pure blue light, like the transparent ether. Thus remain veiled to the stranger, but be not concealed from thyself.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
#43. It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.
Julien Torma
#44. When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
Howard Barker
#45. The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.
K.J. Bishop
#46. Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.
#47. I live in the light,
But carry my dark with me.
John Marsden
#48. My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
Denis Villeneuve
#49. Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? - it likes the dark and the damp - " "So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes - of course - but there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing her hands.
J.K. Rowling
#50. But you alone are always only you,
endless, entire, unique; not blonde, nor dark,
nor black, nor white; but like the midday sun
all light, all colours hidden inside one.
Jaxy Mono
#51. But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.
Miep Gies
#52. The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.
Tim Lebbon
#53. When it's light versus dark, that doesn't matter. One shadow in a brightly lit room goes unnoticed, but shine a ray of light into even the darkest corner ... and everything changes.
Jeaniene Frost
#54. This is one of those days, isn't it? You want to stay safe in a dark, little room a bit longer, hoping the light will never catch up with you, you don't know what's going to happen, but whatever it is, it will wreck your world.
James Marquess
#55. Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.
Leonid Andreyev
#56. The inside of the forest differed a lot than the outside. From the outside, it looked like the trees were spread apart enough to get some light in, but when I went inside, it was completely dark and the branches blocked out almost all sunlight. This
Jason Ryu
#57. We can't see in the dark. There is nothing to light the way, so we stumble. We grope around hoping to find our way safe and sound. But there is nothing to grasp onto, and in the dark we can't see those who could help us.
Quinn Loftis
#58. Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
Bane
#59. Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.
Lorenzo Snow
#60. For some dark reason you heretics come in droves to this House of God. Its light attracts you, but you are incapable of recognizing that.
Javier Sierra
#61. But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.
Joe Frazier
#63. The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
Alice Oswald
#64. parking lot at Cris's apartment. The Chinese restaurant was packed. Cris's apartment was dark, but yellow light and dance music blared from the windows of the apartment next door. "Why
A.L. Anderson
#65. If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.
But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
Colin Bateman
#66. If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57
Erich Fromm
#67. My father he always say that the oil is already inside the student, already there from all time. The teacher only has a match and makes it light, and then the student isn't a student anymore, just a friend, going the same way down the dark road but seeing now by himself.
Roland Merullo
#68. But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear.
John Henry Newman
#69. Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Which is to say, don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars. 10.
Matt Haig
#70. When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke, But sometimes life is scary and dark. That is why we must find the light.
Adventure Time
#71. You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.
John Kasich
#73. Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous.
Gwen Hayes
#74. They met a policeman and brought him back. The man rang the bell several times, but there was no answer. Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark. After
Oscar Wilde
#75. The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;
and so it is with lies.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#76. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#77. The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.
Nicholson Baker
#78. Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
Michael Morpurgo
#79. Mistakes are mistakes but if done constantly they then become a lifestyle. Whatever is done in the dark...
will always come out in the light.
So live a life in which you have nothing to hide in the dark from.
Timothy Pina
#80. You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.
Jodi Picoult
#81. Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars
Munia Khan
#82. You may have been lost in a dark world but it is up to you to shine a light so bright you can see properly.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#83. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#84. Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#85. I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
Orlando Bloom
#86. But childhood was not all good, nor were its lessons. Good came with the bad, as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure; everyone had secrets. What
John Hart
#87. It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.
Charles Dickens
#88. We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.
Rex Brandt
#89. Friend, God wants you to see not just the path ahead, but the profound spiritual realities that are affecting your life. He is ready to help you! So when you sense the dark fears encroaching, run to Him. Because when He is your light, you will have nothing to dread.
Charles F. Stanley
#90. What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.
Roshani Chokshi
#91. Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.
Franz Kafka
#92. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.
Matt Haig
#93. When the Holy Spirit comes into your life, He will show you things to come; you will no longer be in the dark. You will no longer walk in confusion but live each day in the light. You will face the future with faith and confidence. He is the Spirit of reality, Hallelujah!
Chris Oyakhilome
#94. For it was the light, that was flowing in her veins but not blood. Every time she was wounded, she killed the demons in the dark, rather than feeding and keeping them alive.
Akshay Vasu
#95. In the dark night of all beings awakes to Light the tranquil man. But what is day to other beings is night for the sage who sees.
Bhagavad Gita
#96. Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.
Betty Wright
#97. More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly by, but from then on, we would never be fully in the dark again.
Sarah Dessen
#98. I was a very solitary, introverted child who got punished by being sent to a dark room quite frequently. But you cannot imagine how much I enjoyed myself in that room, and how I would look forward to being punished, because it was there that I discovered the light of darkness.
Ana Maria Matute
#99. He clutched her to him with a desperate strength that almost hurt. "I will love you for your light, if you can love me through the dark times. And that love will be like the clear night sky when the moon is full. Not like the sun....but beautiful and bright enough to find our way.
Kerrigan Byrne
#100. Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
