Quotes About Darkness And Sadness

#1. I hate that crossing paths with someone from my past can throw me back to the darkness and sadness that may always be a part of me.

Jessica Sorensen

#2. However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.

Gary Hayden

#3. Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry.

Rush Limbaugh

#4. Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

Jasmine Warga

#6. 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

#7. There comes a time when something changes you ... No matter the impact ... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.

Solange Nicole

#8. And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time
these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#10. Just a sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. 37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

Daniel Tammet

#12. Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon.

Larry Watson

#13. And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells.

Larul Andrews

#14. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.

Michael Poeltl

#15. There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart.

Aline Ohanesian

#16. And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue skies and wind and birds had not been only a dream.

C.S. Lewis

#17. Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

Johnny Cash

#18. Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like I'm trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Whole cities are crumbling to dust.

Paula Stokes

#19. Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Brene Brown

#20. There as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose it's meaning if it were not balanced by sadness- Carl Jung

Jessica Shirvington

#21. If love were human I would've set them on fire by now - a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I'd breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love's destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart.

Piper Payne

#22. There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy. It is a ray of light in the darkness, a shade between sadness and despair, showing the possibility of consolation.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to.

Sanober Khan

#24. In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

Sarah Waters

#26. Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of -

Kelli Russell Agodon

#27. A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#28. 127. Craft a poem about sadness and darkness but using only positive words.

Ryan Andrew Kinder

#29. I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness in your voice, I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness inside you.

Tegan Quin

#30. Remember what I said when I led to Omar and the queen?" I bobbed my head, unable to look away from his jewel-like eyed, shining in the darkness...so much like Chorda's. "That was the lie. Good-bye, Lane," he said and then crept into the darkness.

Kat Falls

#31. We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh air
and realise you can't get up. You're too far down.

Charlotte Eriksson

#32. When you see the sadness, failure, and darkness
Find the opportunity to turn on the light of success.

Debasish Mridha

#33. It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.

Katie McGarry

#34. I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

Alan Lightman

#35. Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Tullian Tchividjian

#36. Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.

Santosh Kalwar

#37. Even when the sun was shining she couldn't see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.

Crissi Langwell

#38. When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Duncan Sheik

#40. I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Josh Gad

#41. Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Virginia Woolf

#42. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Osamu Dazai

#43. Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

Haruki Murakami

#44. Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Jean Giraudoux

#45. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung