Darkness Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear,

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

What darkness to you is light to me

And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

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.

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Even a small star shines in the darkness

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace

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!

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.