Quotes About Darkness Inside You

#1. The darkness inside you allows for a more human experience. Giving you the very thing you lacked before: an insider's knowledge of the two faces of man - the constant struggle between darkness and light.

Alyson Noel

#2. Sometimes it's harder to be bright when you feel the darkness inside you. Sometimes the very hardest thing is to let the pain go.

A.C. Gaughen

#3. When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

J.K. Rowling

#4. But it only makes visible a darkness that's already there. Maybe eating it like that ... " She looked at Deenie, her voice like a pulse in Deenie's brain. "Maybe you bring the darkness inside you. Maybe Lise has it inside her now.

Megan Abbott

#5. When you've got nothing left inside of you except for darkness, it becomes easier to snuff out somebody else's light.

J.M. Darhower

#6. How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six when or seven when I first felt it, the dwindling that is depression.

Lauren Slater

#7. Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#8. You have no idea how someone will react in a frightening situation until you're in it. Most would call me a monster, but even I get scared of the darkness that creeps inside of me.

Teresa Mummert

#9. Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body ...

Jose Saramago

#10. You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

Seth Adam Smith

#11. The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From

Adam Johnson

#12. Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#13. You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

Hilary Mantel

#15. Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It's as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world's all bright and shiny! Too bad you're not.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

Anthony Liccione

#17. Every time you take a human life, something - a darkness - grows inside of you, pushing you out, until eventually there's nothing but that darkness left.

Julie Hockley

#18. Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#19. There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

Jeanne DuPrau

#20. Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Anthony Hopkins

#21. But your ability to forgive is worthless if you cannot turn it upon yourself. If you do not, the darkness you seek to defeat will eat you from the inside.

Jeremy Robinson

#22. That ... you don't want to see, because it isn't a physical realm
because, Light and Darkness ... they live inside of us.
Matt, The Ending

Alexandra Lanc

#23. 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

#24. Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.

Louise Penny

#25. let the stars inside you breathe,
before the darkness swallows them whole.

let them burn through your skin and light this
whole goddamn world on fire.

AVA.

#26. In those moments, none of it matters. It's like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don't even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.

Jennifer Niven

#27. Your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you ...

John Geddes

#28. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

Adam Johnson

#29. They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

Alexandra Bracken

#30. The darkness is not so empty as you imagine. Think of attending a party at night, in a house brightly lit with candles. If we happen to glance out the window, we cannot see into the darkness or know what lies outside. Yet any out there in the dark can see inside to us.

Galen Beckett

#31. After a minute he said, It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that ... except you.

L.J.Smith

#32. The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

Steve Winwood

#33. When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

Lisa Kleypas

#34. Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.

John Searles

#35. No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#36. 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