Top 100 Darkness All Around Quotes
#1. Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.
Santosh Kalwar
#2. Who's there?" he called, then frowned. "Of course," he added, addressing the darkness all around, "even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?' is going to be instantly killed.
Cassandra Clare
#3. Now was too big, like a giant dark planet coming up over the horizon. she wanted then. That's what he'd seen that day, a brightness with darkness all around, watching her, as if she were glamorous, as if she were a rare and mysterious creature.
Janet Fitch
#4. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
Peter Gabriel
#5. That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
Alexandra Adornetto
#6. Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see your face in its entirety
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the darkness all around to remind me of all these
As I hold you in my arms.
Jacques Prevert
#7. There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.
David Almond
#8. Mary was the darkness to my monster. The blood to my blade.
Alaska Angelini
#9. Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness
D.H. Lawrence
#10. For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
George Emil Palade
#11. We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
#12. Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.
Demetra George
#13. Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?
Seth Adam Smith
#14. We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.
Suzanne Palmieri
#15. Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?
Maverick Myth Novel
#16. An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light?
K. Bromberg
#17. We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
Marianne Williamson
#18. We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.
Robert Jordan
#19. My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
Miru Kim
#20. For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
Stewart Stafford
#21. Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir
' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept
Lewis Carroll
#22. You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.
A.D. Posey
#23. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#24. You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.
James Balog
#25. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#27. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.
P.J. Parker
#28. A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it's my rebirth in darkness.
Munia Khan
#29. We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
-Gaara
Masashi Kishimoto
#30. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#31. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.
Johan Oscar Smith
#32. Careful what you wish for; the darkness in my heart is kept in check by the smallest amount of light.
Liberty Stone
#33. Forget how vast darkness can be
Focus on how powerful your light is ...
When you turn it on
Roxana Jones
#34. Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!
The watershed of Time, from which the streams
Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way,
One to the land of promise and of light,
One to the land of darkness and of dreams!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#35. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike
#36. Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls
are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
Catherynne M Valente
#37. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.
Robin Hobb
#38. Ashes are all around the desolate ground. What beauty could behold the darkness of a soul? -Keeley
Lora Ann
#39. It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.
Warren Eyster
#40. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.
Angela McPherson
#41. Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation
one point of light.
Radclyffe Hall
#43. The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch of night, a hairy darkness in which stars crawled like lice, and the moon crabbed slowly upward like an albino dog tick striving for the anal gulch.
Joe R. Lansdale
#44. I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.
Anna Freeman
#45. The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.
Edwin Muir
#46. One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
Khalil Gibran
#47. I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
Robert Carlyle
#48. And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.
D.H. Lawrence
#49. Her carriage bespoke an exquisite misery, a wretchedness so perfect and so absolute that it manifested as dignity, as calm. More than a dark horse, she was darkness itself, the cloak of it.
Eleanor Catton
#50. Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?
Seth Adam Smith
#51. He that is not with me is against me (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position; there is no middle ground!
Ken Ham
#52. Goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness ...
John Geddes
#53. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
#54. To consider mankind other than brethren ... plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.
John Woolman
#55. No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.
Nick Nolte
#56. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
Catherynne M Valente
#57. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
Joshilyn Jackson
#58. The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.
Stephen King
#59. May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
William Shakespeare
#60. Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That's what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.
C.M. Rayne
#61. Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
Anne Waldman
#63. Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep in the eye is nothing other than the darkness of the universe.
Lars Gustafsson
#65. Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.
Bryant McGill
#66. Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#68. You lost your way in the darkness? Don't panic; that will be your best light!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.
Thomas Ligotti
#71. [Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.
Gregory A. Boyd
#72. I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No mental adjustment could make it less absolute. It was impenetrable - black painted over black painted over black.
Haruki Murakami
#73. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.
Nikki Rowe
#74. Nothing left but true: "You're gravity I can't escape." His sore heart labored beats in the darkness. "What am I supposed to do with that?" she said. "What you can," he said. "What you want.
James Grady
#75. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.
Philip Ridley
#76. The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.
Nancy Hale
#77. Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.
John Calvin
#79. Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?
Francine Rivers
#80. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
James Joyce
#81. My brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.
William Wordsworth
#83. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
Gaurav Rao
#84. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.
I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.
Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;
I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.
Khadija Rupa
#85. Waking, dreaming. She felt as if a woman torn between two lovers - one of them calm, and sweet, and still and good, and the other magnificent, stone-muscled and taciturn and bold enough to seize her and pull her close to him in the darkness of the night.
Gord Sellar
#86. The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass.
Brandon Sanderson
#87. Community is the place where are revealed all the darkness and anger, jealousies and rivalry hidden in our hearts. Community is a place of pain, because it is a place of loss, a place of conflict, and a place of death. But it is also a place of resurrection.
Jean Vanier
#88. The attempt at introspective analysis ... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.
William James
#89. She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.
Christy A. Campbell
#90. Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
Francine Rivers
#91. To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood
#92. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#93. Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again.
Paul Simon
#94. Gripping, nonstop action and one hell of a heroine. [on Eve of Darkness ]
Shiloh Walker
#95. It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!
John Hagee
#96. Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
Kirk Cameron
#97. Maybe, but it's more than that. She intrigues me. There's a light in her that wants to shine, but the darkness won't let it. I want to help push the darkness aside so she can find that light again.
Dee Henderson
#98. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
Dan B. Allender
#99. Isn't there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone, the way you'll be an angel's lamp to me from this out, and I abroad in the darkness, spearing salmons in the Owen, or the Carrowmore?
J.M. Synge
#100. I drop down the tower and roll on the roof, breaking into a run, the cold night air blowing me faster, the darkness and gleaming stars taking me somewhere I don't have to feel.
Sara Raasch
