Darkness Is Light Quotes

#1. Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity ...

Anton Szandor LaVey

#2. You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

Cory Booker

#3. 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

#4. There is no darkness light cannot conquer

Rick Julian

#5. Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

John Hagelin

#6. We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness. (Your smile, p. 56)

Chimnese Davids

#8. Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Garth Nix

#9. Drinking is for the moon," she would say as she poured her wine. "Darkness hides our smaller sins. But the sun isn't so
forgiving. Light requires the innocence of sobriety.

Kyra Davis

#10. The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

Shusaku Endo

#11. Scripture states that it is the people of darkness who are supposed to be afraid of us, the carriers of light.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dark and full of terrors.

George R R Martin

#13. All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.

Glen Duncan

#14. Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage.

Toni Sorenson

#15. There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

Elaine Pagels

#16. In the absence of light, only darkness is left.

Reyna Pryde

#17. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.

L.J.Smith

#18. There is always a light somewhere in the darkness to guide you to happiness.

Stephanie Rose

#19. Darkness is the natural state of the universe. Light, fleeting, comforting as it may be, may stretch to the very edges of all we know. Yet once it is gone, the darkness always remains.

Mark T. Barnes

#20. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

#21. Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#22. The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.

Lisa Wingate

#23. It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

Nancy Venable Raine

#24. There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#25. Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

Deepak Chopra

#27. The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.

Jessica Sorensen

#28. The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow.

John Hudson Tiner

#29. There is no evil in the darkness, it's just an absence of light.

Robin Jarvis

#30. Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

LeeAnn Taylor

#31. The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Plato

#32. It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#33. All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#34. One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn't the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light.

J.W. Lord

#35. Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities.

Allen L. Roland

#36. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.

J.A. Belfield

#37. Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. It is always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness. - DANIEL KIAN MC KIERNAN

Al Sarrantonio

#39. At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.

Anthony Liccione

#40. Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. Jesus is the light of the world. His light shines through all darkness. His love heals all hatred. His grace and mercy forgives all sins. The anointing of his blood heals the sick and the lame. His guarding angels will forever protect you and his word will forever guide you.

Colishia S. Benjamin

#42. Staying in the safe darkness of memory and yearning is easy. Going forward to the light of possibility takes courage.

Blaize Clement

#43. It is in this darkness that I have found all light - somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.

Coco J. Ginger

#44. A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

John O'Donohue

#45. The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness ... They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!

Vaclav Havel

#46. 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

#47. There is a light that can only be found on the other side of darkness, there is a peace that can only be found on the other side of struggle, there is a faith that can only be found on the other side of doubt, and there is a healing that can only be found on the other side of pain.

Sarah Holman

#48. When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same.

Stormie O'martian

#49. Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.

Vernon Howard

#50. His mate is the light that keeps that darkness at bay. She fills the hole that has been growing ever larger in his soul. When the bond is completed between mates, their very souls merge and the male will be able to leash the darker part of his nature and at last be at peace with his wolf.

Quinn Loftis

#51. we know
from the beginning that the darkness
is beyond us there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for

W.S. Merwin

#52. As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

Terry Goodkind

#53. We all have the power of light inside us, it's just that sometimes the darkness is stronger. Fear is like darkness, too. It can consume you. It will consume you. And when you let it consume you, it'll be hard as hell to break free from it. You have to fight it.

J. G. Whit

#54. Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.

Pat Schneider

#55. With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.

Brian A. McBride

#56. There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

Takehiko Inoue

#57. Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness; but your darkness cannot now infect our light.

C.S. Lewis

#58. Thick is the darkness
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.

William Ernest Henley

#59. Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

Alexander MacLaren

#60. Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.

Karen Marie Moning

#61. My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

Ted Dekker

#62. Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

Edward Robert Harrison

#63. Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

John Of The Cross

#64. To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

#65. Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#66. One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.

Kevin DeYoung

#67. Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

William Shakespeare

#68. An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#69. When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.

Henri Nouwen

#70. When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#71. Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

Lindsey McKeon

#72. What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?

Leigh Ann Henion

#73. Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.

James Montgomery

#74. If Nick is darkness with a kernel of light inside him, I am light with the matching kernel of darkness. It's what makes us so perfect for one another.

Jessica Clare

#75. Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not an easy struggle, but it is worthwhile.

Jean Vanier

#76. To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

Mother Teresa

#77. This is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

John Piper

#78. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Stanley Kubrick

#79. People seek light in the external darkness
Not knowing that the Light is within.
Close your physical eyes and see with your inner vision.
Open your eyes and see what before was invisible to you.

Raphael Zernoff

#80. The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

David Wolpe

#81. 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

#82. Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

Milan Kundera

#83. A touch of kindness is like a ray of light in deep darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#84. It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

Charles Kingsley

#85. Trials come. Tribulation comes. Fires of refinement come. The purpose of refinement is to bring to light the things hidden in darkness and then remove them

Robin Bertram

#86. I am no longer satisfied with attending or participating in a meeting called revival. I want to live revival reality and carry His glory into the darkness. Our goal is nothing less than lives and communities transformed from the inside out and turned upside-down by love. That is revival.

Michele Perry

#87. Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.

Steve Erickson

#88. The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#89. Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.

Pope Francis

#90. For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .

Aldous Huxley

#91. There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.

Sumangali Morhall

#92. There is light in a world of darkness because there is hope in a world of hatred.

Xena Thornton

#93. Love is light.
Light is life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and [Barack] Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.

Luis Gutierrez

#95. Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions - light and darkness mixed.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#96. Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

Laozi

#97. As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch of darkness to get through, but just like a tunnel, know that there is light and freedom at the end of it.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#98. The light in my soul is inextinguishable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#100. It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.

Maurice Strong