Top 100 Light From Darkness Quotes
#1. That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
Henry Knox
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way to the other as to its opposite. Darkness departs and light appears. Pride is darkness, but humility is light.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#7. Darkness is only a form of light, one that the foolish consider evil, those that see it as the devil and choose to destroy and or punish the darkness. True evil comes from those who cause such pain, true evil comes from the light, not the dark.
Conner Faller
#8. To finally meet Alayna's eyes. Though I'm torn and uncertain, there is one truth that does not waver - I am in love with Alayna Withers. I will do anything for her. She is my light, and I will fight like hell to keep her from my darkness. Whatever that takes.
Laurelin Paige
#9. Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.
They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple ... away from the shadows, away from the darkness.
Umair Naeem
#10. Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light.
Megan Miranda
#11. Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
#12. And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#13. The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it.
Leonard Roy Frank
#14. Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.
Lang Leav
#15. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
Charles Handy
#17. Light
jumping out of window
is staring the dark
from afar.
Suman Pokhrel
#18. Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone," I commented to Ryan.
"Or just one with a boner.
Stacey Marie Brown
#19. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
Seth Adam Smith
#20. Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
John Donne
#21. Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#22. If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
John Milton
#24. A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him.
Rumi
#25. He was simply an early lover of humanity, and that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness to the light of love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
Alan Watts
#28. Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.
Suzy Kassem
#29. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#30. Jon passes from Darkness to Light,
Jon Lord
#31. 1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.
Bible. New International Version
#32. 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
#33. When you anxiously await to emerge from deep darkness, you will realize the beauty of light.
Debasish Mridha
#34. The mask possesses equal levels of sorcery and functionality. It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light.
Haruki Murakami
#35. He is a presence to be felt and known
In darkness and in light, from herb and stone,
Spreading itself where'er that Power may move
Which has withdrawn his being to its own;
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#36. It's the darkness when a light is quenched, the silence when a sound fades. It takes the final breath from the smallest insect and the mightiest king. It knows us all, stalks us all, and in the end claims us all.
Darren Shan
#37. It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
Dylan Thomas
#38. Your decision to open the Bible every day to look into the mirror and see truth from God makes you a light in a world filled with much darkness. - Catherine Martin
Diane Stortz
#39. The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.
Alice Hoffman
#40. Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .
William Law
#41. All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It's very rare that someone does things purely out of the goodness of their heart. Most need something to fight against, something to drive them forward in order to create a light in what will always be a very dark world.
Kevin Reaver
#42. Tis but a gentle step from fading light to darkness, but a plunge for those who brightly burn.
Craig Smedley
#43. Embedded from dots and darkness everything in the universe is tangled, twisted and formed. The colors we see are creation of consciousness with light and profound/deep understanding of life. The more we are awake, the more we integrate within the universe.
Katia M.S.
Katia M. S.
#44. The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#45. When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.
John H. Groberg
#46. 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
#47. The storm had caused the power to go out; the streets were buried in a liquid darkness speckled here and there with the light cast by oil lamps or candles from balconies and doors.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#48. Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.
Frederick Lenz
#49. When we transform our old life and give our spirit a new image, we find it hard and tiring to turn back from the darkness of earthly passions to the serene calm of the divine light. We thus ask God to help us that a complete conversion may be brought about in us.
Augustine Of Hippo
#50. She saw the world as if in a vision: a dark room into which a beam of sunlight fell, with dust motes tumbling in and out, from darkness to light, and she felt that now she had finally moved into the sunbeam.
Sigrid Undset
#51. The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#52. There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.
Quintin Jardine
#53. The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
Carson McCullers
#54. 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
#55. So the two went: the boy who had escaped from darkness because he loved light more than he knew and the girl who had become ordinary because she did not realize how wonderful it was to be a princess.
David R. Mains
#56. I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.
Azar Nafisi
#57. May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
T. Thorn Coyle
#58. It had been impossible to get away from her own darkness. Or so she thought.
Here she was basking in the light of a beautiful bad man.
V. Theia
#59. It's one thing to wander in the darkness because you know no different, but it's quite another to enjoy the light only to have it taken from you,
Deborah Harkness
#60. Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
Sivananda
#61. 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
#62. Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#63. Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.
Ayn Rand
#64. Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
Eugene Kennedy
#65. He looked down at her as he eased from the bed. Why such a creature of light and love and life should have come to him, he could not fathom. But he was grateful. Very grateful.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#66. Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Caspar David Friedrich
#67. It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streamsThrough it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.
Johannes Gutenberg
#68. If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.
Mother Teresa
#69. Maybe nothing could extinguish the yearning of human love; maybe it travelled on for ever, through the darkness. Like the light from dead stars.
S.K. Tremayne
#70. You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days ... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why
Should wise men grieve to know that they must die?
The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face
Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
#73. He was beautiful in a way that pierced the heart. He was beautiful in the way the universe had been made, from darkness and silence into light and song.
A.M. Daily
#74. It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.
Dana Reinhardt
#75. Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
Charles Caleb Colton
#76. [Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness ... God does not give them a stock of holiness.
John Wesley
#77. God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#78. Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!-RVM
R.v.m.
#79. Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.
Abhijit Naskar
#80. A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
No light; but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe
John Milton
#81. We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. The enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight.
Antonia Perdu
#83. 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
#84. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all;
Seneca.
#85. 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
#87. A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#88. Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.
Drew Myron
#89. 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
#90. We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.
Dito Montiel
#91. The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.
Fridtjof Nansen
#92. It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.
George Vecsey
#93. My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.
MC Yogi
#94. I am part of the part that once was everything,
Part of the darkness which gave birth to light ...
Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.
James W. Douglass
#96. Heath Ledger died from the joker, so far the darkness killed him... but why we don't explore it?
Deyth Banger
#97. Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.
Ross Turnbull
#98. There's a reason why stars can only exist in the sky
they're just rockets of light traveling through space, so it feels right to admire their form from a distance. People, solid and living and breathing together in the same world, are not meant to be surround by that much darkness.
Katie Kacvinsky
#99. O Christ, my life, possess me utterly.
Take me and make a little Christ of me.
If I am anything but thy father's son,
'Tis something not yet from the darkness won.
Oh, give me light to live with open eyes.
Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.
George MacDonald
#100. It is more spiritual the one that faces darkness with his light than the one that hides his light from the world.
Robin Sacredfire
