Top 74 Quotes About Darkness Within Us
#1. I finally realized that it's possible to love within a space that sometimes holds nothing but emptiness.. or nothing but darkness.
After all, we all have darkness within us.
Some of us more than others.
T.M. Frazier
#2. Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#3. Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest.
Mia Asher
#4. I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.
Anna Freeman
#5. May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
William Shakespeare
#6. The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.
Stephen King
#7. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
Joshilyn Jackson
#8. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
Catherynne M Valente
#9. No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.
Nick Nolte
#10. To consider mankind other than brethren ... plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.
John Woolman
#11. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
#12. Goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness ...
John Geddes
#13. He that is not with me is against me (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position; there is no middle ground!
Ken Ham
#14. Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?
Seth Adam Smith
#15. Her carriage bespoke an exquisite misery, a wretchedness so perfect and so absolute that it manifested as dignity, as calm. More than a dark horse, she was darkness itself, the cloak of it.
Eleanor Catton
#16. And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.
D.H. Lawrence
#17. I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
Robert Carlyle
#18. One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
Khalil Gibran
#19. The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.
Edwin Muir
#20. The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
Dennis Kucinich
#21. The light within us can always identify our mind's darkness
Munia Khan
#22. Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
Dean Koontz
#23. He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.
P.C. Cast
#24. I've begun to wonder if that's all we really need. Just one person who knows us truly. One person who knows the darkness that lies within and believes in us anyway.
Michelle Zink
#25. He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!
James Freeman Clarke
#26. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are. Our sense of ourselves then becomes a deserted field at nightfall, with sad reeds flanking a boatless river, bright in the darkness growing between the distant shores.
Fernando Pessoa
#27. From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
Pope Francis
#28. There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. 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
#30. What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
Anish Kapoor
#31. What makes night within us may leave stars.
Victor Hugo
#32. The light and darkness lives within us all. Which one dominates your soul?
Yvonne Nicolas
#33. Maybe Christ was promoting Buddhism, maybe Buddha wasn't a prophet, maybe the Quran is older than its Prophet, and maybe we shouldn't spend another two thousand years living a lie, just because we fear the truth and the darkness it reveals within us.
Daniel Marques
#34. War and tooth enameled
salted lemon childhoods
All colors run, none of us solid
Don't look for shadow behind me
I carry it within
I live cycles of light and darkness
Suheir Hammad
#35. The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.
Seth Adam Smith
#36. If all the darkness each of us carries within us, all our angers and unhappiness and bad moments were pulled out of us and given shape, we would all create monsters.
Charles De Lint
#37. There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.
Joan D. Chittister
#38. There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.
Solange Nicole
#39. An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light?
K. Bromberg
#40. You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.
James Balog
#41. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#42. You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.
A.D. Posey
#43. Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir
' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept
Lewis Carroll
#44. For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
Stewart Stafford
#45. My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
Miru Kim
#46. We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.
Robert Jordan
#47. We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
Marianne Williamson
#48. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#49. Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?
Maverick Myth Novel
#50. 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
#51. Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?
Seth Adam Smith
#52. Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.
Demetra George
#53. We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
#54. For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
George Emil Palade
#55. Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness
D.H. Lawrence
#56. Mary was the darkness to my monster. The blood to my blade.
Alaska Angelini
#57. 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
#59. Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation
one point of light.
Radclyffe Hall
#60. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.
Angela McPherson
#61. It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.
Warren Eyster
#62. Ashes are all around the desolate ground. What beauty could behold the darkness of a soul? -Keeley
Lora Ann
#63. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.
Robin Hobb
#64. Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls
are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
Catherynne M Valente
#65. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike
#66. The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch of night, a hairy darkness in which stars crawled like lice, and the moon crabbed slowly upward like an albino dog tick striving for the anal gulch.
Joe R. Lansdale
#67. Forget how vast darkness can be
Focus on how powerful your light is ...
When you turn it on
Roxana Jones
#68. Careful what you wish for; the darkness in my heart is kept in check by the smallest amount of light.
Liberty Stone
#69. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.
Johan Oscar Smith
#70. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#71. We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
-Gaara
Masashi Kishimoto
#72. A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it's my rebirth in darkness.
Munia Khan
#73. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.
P.J. Parker
