Top 100 Quotes About Darkness
#1. I'll come back," I said earnestly, through the soft, intrusive darkness.
"Perhaps you will"- I felt rather than saw her smile. "But even if you don't, you're here, like my father. So I won't be lonesome.
Willa Carther
#2. Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
Natsuki Takaya
#3. Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.
Amanda Hocking
#4. Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
Mary Baker Eddy
#5. You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Darkness tests stars,
but they shine.
Storms test trees,
but they stand.
Adversity tests the great,
but they soar.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.
Malala Yousafzai
#8. In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
#9. For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
#10. You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#11. Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.
Rajneesh
#12. Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
Tanna Marie Angers
#13. Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. "Light" is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as love and understanding. Love nurtures the emotional body; understanding fills the voids created by pain.
Deepak Chopra
#14. A voice came out of the darkness.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.
Robert Harris
#15. In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too.
Dan Abnett
#16. Sometimes all darkness needs is a little of the right kinda light; I am your light Mischeif.
PHOENIX ROCKSTAR - JAN 2013.
Bec Botefuhr
#17. I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.
Sherri Shepherd
#18. In the darkness, even love will become hate
Ikuko Itoh
#19. The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it.
The world had gone a bit gray.
Kevin Hearne
#20. I beseech you, my star . . . please see past the darkness.
Renee Ahdieh
#21. Now we are creatures of the darkness
Blessed with eternal love to last!
The knowing dawned on me with sharpness
Enhanced by glimpses of the past.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#22. Day lets her imagination free with an urban adventure that is not only fast-paced, but also erotic and addictive. [on Eve of Darkness ]
Sasha White
#23. It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
Coventry Patmore
#24. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.
R. Scott Bakker
#25. Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
Bodhidharma
#26. The whole point of being a good friend is being in the darkness. I'll be your light, until you can be it yourself again.
Catherine Doyle
#27. For the most part, the people who are currently in Satan's kingdom don't realize where they really are, because it is a kingdom of darkness, and they can't "see" it. In contrast, the kingdom of God is the kingdom of light; therefore, those who are in His kingdom know where they are.
Derek Prince
#28. Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#29. And Maud bakes cookies, because when the darkness is too heavy to bear and too many things have been broken in too many ways to ever be fixed again, Maud doesn't know what weapon to use if one can't use dreams.
Fredrik Backman
#30. Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
Douglas Rushkoff
#31. But there are others of my kind ... those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings
superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?
Seth Grahame-Smith
#32. As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill Hicks
#33. I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.
Sam Keen
#34. We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door.
Bill Crawford
#35. Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak
#36. The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights boldly growing in the cold night, the only lights for miles around in the inmense darkness of the range.
Jeannette Walls
#37. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We
Debbie Ford
#38. The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us. We'd survived them, found each other, and discovered that sometimes, from darkness can come light.
Brenda Rothert
#39. Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
Seneca The Younger
#40. There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
Michael Connelly
#41. You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.
C.M. Rayne
#42. Life can last just so long, you understand. Everything else is in the room, with darkness, with God's language, with screams. Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on.
Paul Auster
#43. What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
Iris Murdoch
#45. The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.
Mason Jennings
#46. WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT'S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.
Amanda Palmer
#47. It feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the sun and after that you're dragged down into the darkness again
Salman Rushdie
#48. The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#49. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift.
Leigh Bardugo
#50. The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light.
Solange Nicole
#53. Because it's easier to turn off worries in the dark.
Nick met his eyes in the darkness. "Yours or Mine?"
"Both.
Brigid Kemmerer
#54. And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her.
Ben Elton
#55. meaning of our life is the light we have brought into the world. The light we brought into life is eternal; it can never be made into darkness. We should help others to see the eternal light in their own lives. One
Maria Marshall
#56. Now all I have to worry about is what might crawl out of the darkness to get me in the night."
"Yeah, well, I think there's a box of doughnuts under the chair. You can toss those to distract it.
Elle Parker
#57. Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.
Gary Hopkins
#58. A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#59. I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.
Matt Berninger
#60. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.
Jodi Picoult
#62. You must be prepared to step into the darkness if you want to live in the light.' (from The Walnut Tree)
Caroline Wedd
#63. He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine ...
Terry Pratchett
#64. The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#65. Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras
#66. She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light
Nikki Rowe
#68. Slowly the darkness began to weave its way into my mind, and before long I was hopelessly out of control. I could not follow the path of my own thoughts. Sentences flew around in my head and fragmented first into phrases and then words; finally, only sounds remained.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#69. Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.
Alain De Botton
#70. When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.
Kazuya Minekura
#71. I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love
Seema Gupta
#72. He was so much more than she had expected. More than a delicious body and a smile that came out of nowhere to light up the darkness of this hopeless place.
Aria Kane
#76. In my story, Ashley was willing to be in my darkness with me. She wasn't there as my helper or to fix me; she was just with me - as an equal - holding my hand as I waded through my feelings.
Brene Brown
#77. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.
C. JoyBell C.
#78. ...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.
Joseph Conrad
#79. Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.
Laini Taylor
#80. It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.
Michael Chabon
#81. On the grave among the pine trees, a boy knelt weeping, his chest, racked by sobs, heaving in the darkness, oppressed by an immense grief gentler than the moon and more unfathomable than the night.
Gustave Flaubert
#82. If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#84. That's the hopefulness of Les Miserables some cynics have ignored, the idea that the individual can rise above the cultural darkness and make a difference.
Bob Welch
#85. Clear moments are so short.
There is much more darkness. More
ocean than terra firma. More
shadow than form.
Adam Zagajewski
#86. If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.
Robert Walser
#88. I understand Mother's need, whatever she might say on the phone, what she really wants is to hear, before she closes her eyes, the voice of someone who loves her. Love is at last, our only rejoinder to darkness.
Scott Russell Sanders
#89. I'm not going anywhere, Maddie. You mean everything to me-you saved me from the darkness and brought me to the light. And I can't imagine a future without you in it. I intend on spending the rest of my life with you.
Katie Ashley
#90. And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you - here I opened wide the door;
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Edgar Allan Poe
#91. You were chased here by darkness.
Listen to the curve of the hills, the guttering voice.
The way to anywhere leads through humiliation.
There are only animal trails.
Tim Lilburn
#92. In the gray world above, I hear myself howling with laughter. Far below me, in the psychic abyss that is part of the Darkness, I hear another howling, one full of joy and pain, rage and celebration.
Not just another witch is coming, my foolish Sisters, but Witch.
Anne Bishop
#93. Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare
#94. Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.
Gautama Buddha
#95. If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#96. As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
Bipasha Basu
#97. The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.
Rajneesh
#98. We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
William Hague
#99. A million gripes against the darkness will not make a dent in it. But a little candle will.
Khalid Baig
#100. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.
Robert Uttaro
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