Darkness Quotes
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Darkness Quotes & Sayings
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The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
— George Eliot
Nothing else can take a cloud's place but the sun.
— Serena Winter
The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
— Richard Rohr
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
I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Unremembered and afar
I watched as I watched a star,
Through darkness struggling into view
And I loved you better than you knew. — Elizabeth Chase Allen
I watched as I watched a star,
Through darkness struggling into view
And I loved you better than you knew. — Elizabeth Chase Allen
While appreciating the beauty around her, Eden considered the darkness that lay ahead.
— Linda Lee Chaikin
He fears not darkness, for his light comes from within.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.
— Anne Fadiman
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
— Yousuf Karsh
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
— Sara Genn
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
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
— Carolyn Crane
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
— Brandon Sanderson
The light must illuminate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The expanse of space stretched out before them, causing Andi's eyelids to droop against her will. Before she knew it, darkness had claimed her.
— Sasha Alsberg
No matter the darkness in his eyes. No matter the secret sins in his heart. No matter the stains on his soul. I vowed one day I would save him too.
— Juliette Cross
On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.
— Terry Hayes
Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.
— Cheryl Strayed
You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
— Sara Humphreys
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
— Cassandra Clare
Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.
— Virginia Woolf
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
— Paul Westerberg
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
— Alexandre Dumas
And into the darkness, to his sleeping woman, he whispered, You don't know this, baby, but some men have dream women too.
— Kristen Ashley
Shine your light unto the night to bring on the dawn
— Srividya Srinivasan
...bleached by darkness
— A.S. Byatt
In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.
— Amanda Hocking
Ceaselessly, evil battles with good, right clashes with wrong, darkness comes against the light, and the counterfeit struggles to supplant the real.
— Bob Larson
And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
— Mahmoud Darwish
I bare witness that our living hope is in Jesus Christ.. I testify that with Christ, darkness cannot succeed.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.
— Andrew Pyper
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
— Kate DiCamillo
Haunted trees
covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets. — Suman Pokhrel
covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets. — Suman Pokhrel
How many times would she follow the prince into darkness, trusting his light to guide her?
— Elise Kova
He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.
— James Dashner
There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You have a great light to illuminate the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
— Amy Tan
Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.
— Suzy Kassem
Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.
— John Climacus
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
— Anonymous
Sometimes when we spend too much time staring into the darkness, we forget there is light.
— Lincoln Farish
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
— Thomas Merton
There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
— Gautama Buddha
You're like the fresh air from an orchard in spring, he shook his head, his long bangs falling over his right eye, I am darkness.
— Cristiane Serruya
It is more spiritual the one that faces darkness with his light than the one that hides his light from the world.
— Robin Sacredfire
Every sunrise gives you reason to hope. Every darkness of night teaches you patience.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
— Jennifer Lopez
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.
— Mark Mirabello
If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.
— Alice Hoffman
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;
— Edward Lear
Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in ... I love you
— Steven Strait
I'm not sure exactly how...but instead of darkness I saw light.
— Rachel E. Carter
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
— Charles Dickens
You are the light that shines in my darkness.
— Sylvain Reynard
The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to crawl through the mud in darkness.
— Rachel Reiland
To add more power to your light, don't fear the darkness of the night.
— Debasish Mridha
There was a darkness in Jacob now. Like my sun had imploded.
— Stephenie Meyer
Weep, for the light is dead.
— Friedrich Schiller
I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
— Van Morrison
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
— Henry David Thoreau
Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.
— Anthony Liccione
Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character of the pool announces, "I am here.
— Fennel Hudson
They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment
— Jane Urquhart
But when the sun goes down? We're all just stumbling through the darkness, trying to outlast another night.
— Tessa Dare
Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.
— Ibn Ata Allah
She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. — Victoria Aveyard
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. — Victoria Aveyard
seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall.
— Harold Bloom
There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness ...
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.
— Wendy Mass
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
— Milan Kundera
At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.
— E.B. White
The Sun and the science are the same; when they set down, the darkness comes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
To see in the dark, close your eyes.
— J.R. Rim
But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.
— Michael Poeltl
What fascinates me is not so much humanity's engulfment in darkness, but what kind of culture we will construct from the rubble of this one.
— Carolyn Baker