Quotes About Afraid Of The Light

#1. My wife was afraid of the dark ... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Rodney Dangerfield

#2. Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

#3. Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

Adrian Rogers

#4. We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~

S.S. Segran

#5. The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

Shel Silverstein

#6. As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.

Andy Andrews

#7. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

#8. It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

Plato

#9. People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light

John Lennox

#11. Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.

Jennifer Melzer

#12. We ourselves are behaving in the Church as if we are afraid of the light, it should not be so.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.

Charles Bukowski

#14. Don't be afraid to be authentic, show up in the world as you truly are.
Be as you mean to be, but be light with it. Love it, give it, share it, laugh at it, walk everywhere with it.
Be in the world but not OF it.

Jay Woodman

#15. It is amazing how the light can make us forget we were ever afraid of the dark.

Anonymous

#16. When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love.

Alan W. Watts

#17. Those who can truly love, they're like candles; they don't mind sacrificing themselves for the sake of love. But the rest of us are candle holders. We love and appreciate the light of love, but are too afraid to burn ourselves down to light up someone else's life.

Uday Mukerji

#18. Experience life in all possible ways
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.

Osho

#19. The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

Gerard Depardieu

#20. Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Jim Butcher

#21. I'd cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I'd write love poems to the parts of yourself you can't stand. I'd stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I'm not afraid of your dark.

Andrea Gibson

#22. To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.

Joel Brown

#23. Don't be afraid of the darkness; just carry a light with you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

D.R. Silva

#25. PSALM 27 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold [1] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Anonymous

#26. Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Vera Nazarian

#27. She knew, now, that there was always light - beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.
There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.

Lauren Oliver

#28. 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

#29. Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

Evanescence

#30. The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#31. As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.
As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.

Anthony Liccione

#32. A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

Orrin Woodward

#33. A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.

John Steinbeck

#34. I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

Tony Dorsett

#35. Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.

Carrie Jones

#36. Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.

Frederick Lenz

#38. The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

Wendy Cope

#39. I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light.

Billie Letts

#40. Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

Chris Guillebeau

#41. I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

Claude Monet

#42. Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

Amy Lee

#43. I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.

Mary Balogh

#44. I wish I had covered all my tracks completely cause I'm so afraid
Is that the light at the far end of the tunnel or just the train?

Owl City

#45. Don't be afraid of the dark, my child. Light has a source. It can be snuffed out. But darkness has no source. It just exists. This darkness is a path to That, which has no source: God. Wise

Amish Tripathi

#46. The sound did not hide the void, but it filled it with a kind of light: nothing that would stop you from falling, but maybe stop you from being so afraid.

Padma Viswanathan

#47. Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#48. Stars are not afraid of you surpassing them; if they were, they would not light your way to the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#49. Do not be afraid of people who lurk in the shadows. Stand up for what you believe in. The people in the shadows are no match for people who are not afraid of light.

Alexander McCall Smith

#50. Once you feel with the right person, you will then feel life and see life in a different light then you will not be afraid of it

Anonymous

#51. Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

Pope John Paul II

#52. Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
Be not afraid
To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#53. She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Carson McCullers

#54. The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Tanith Lee

#55. One thing I knew about the novelist's task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.

Philip Sington

#56. I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.

Woody Allen

#57. I'm going to turn on the light, and we'll be two people in a room looking at each other and wondering why on earth we were afraid of the dark.

Gale Wilhelm

#58. I'm not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I'm awake. And afraid.

Christine Fonseca

#59. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#61. Never dim your light because others are too afraid to come out of the dark.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#62. 1The LORD is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid?

Lysa TerKeurst

#63. Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Yann Martel

#64. No one stops to think, though - that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it - of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though - the darkness and the light.

Jacqueline Woodson

#65. 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

#66. I didn't want to write this
even to think of you
afraid the thought would curl
would tangle & make you
common & factual as light.

Jake Adam York

#67. Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within.

Emily Thorne

#68. Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.

Hilary McKay

#69. Behind this dark cloud we call life, with its occasional silver linings, there is a blue sky bright with the everlasting light of that hidden world full of majesty without suffering. It is the domain of the one about whom some of us say, 'God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid.

Brad Keena

#70. I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when I wake, and that I shall have to struggle not in the light but in the imprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.

Rene Descartes

#71. When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light.

Frederick Lenz

#72. The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

Paulo Coelho

#73. I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Paulo Coelho

#74. If you love and get hurt,love more,if you love more and hurt more, love even more,if you love even more and get hurt even more,until it hurts no more" ... ,"Dnt be afraid of the shadows, it means there is a light near by

William Shakespeare

#75. Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each.

Johnathan Jena

#76. Son, fear lives in the dark. Drag it into the light and you'll see there was never anything to be afraid of in the first place. You tell Em how you're feeling?" he asked, frowning.

R.J. Prescott

#77. Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

#78. Don't be afraid of the dark
Look inside
Grab your heart
Let it shine
If it's dark outside
Shine your light

Will.i.am

#79. One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.

Thomas Merton

#80. My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.

Bryan Batt

#81. When you have Chick Night to look forward to, it can be your light at the end of a long and trying month. It can help you maintain your balance, keep your perspective, and hold on to your sanity during times when you're actually afraid to wonder what else could go wrong.

Colleen Kleven

#82. The LORD is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1)

June Hunt