Darkness Quotes
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“No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.”
Quote by -Plato
“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
Quote by -Helen de Keller
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
Quote by -Helen de Keller
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace"
Quote by -Sophocles
"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."
Quote by -Sophocles
"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
Quote by -Earl Nightingale
"'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed uprooted- We shall not feel it again. We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain."
Quote by -Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live again. If you don't come for me, I'll become a demon and drag you down into the dark."
Quote by -Iris Murdoch
"Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.
Quote by -Lady Gaga
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing
Quote by -Stephen King
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.
Quote by -Rumi
“In my darkest moments, the “what-if”s bury me and the “if only”s keep me from enjoying what is.”
Quote by -Zach Anner
“One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
Quote by -Mother Teresa
“The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.”
Quote by -William James
“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
I discovered that wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. Foolishness leaves you in the dark. But wise or foolish, we all end up the same... we all die and are soon forgotten.
Quote by -King Solomon
"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach"
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement."
Quote by -Carson McCullers