Darkness Quotes

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."

Bram Stoker

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Mark Twain

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."

Mary Oliver

"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."

Terry Pratchett

"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."

Jess C. Scott

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"The Uses Of Sorrow(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift."

Mary Oliver

"The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing."

Jarod Kintz

"My shadow follows me during the day, and then surrounds me at night as it clones itself into complete darkness. Now that’s self-love."

Jarod Kintz

"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly."

Patrick Overton

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."

E.M. Forster

"Last night my shadow exploded into hundreds of fluttering black birds, foreshadowing my love taking flight under the cover of camouflage."

Jarod Kintz

"Prophesies are dark and don’t need a flashlight to illuminate. I’m a bring my own lighthouse kind of lover."

Jarod Kintz

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted."

Emily Dickinson

"During my darkest hour, life threw me some curves. Thankfully they were in the shape of a woman’s body."

Jarod Kintz

"My reality is it’s nighttime. The truth is I’m just blindfolded. How many people live like me, in self-deluded darkness?"

Jarod Kintz

"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

"My life is but a firefly’s flicker, so I’d better use my brief moment to light up the darkness that covers her path."

Jarod Kintz

"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun."

Shaun Hick

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"

C.G. Jung

"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."

Pythagoras

"I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."

Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope."

Margaret Stohl

"Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win."

Steve Maraboli

"What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark."

Jeanette Winterson

"Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."

Dejan Stojanovic

"Her love used to be my lighthouse, and now it feels like I'm treading water in the dark. I’ll bet as soon as I start swimming, the sun will rise and color the sky with the romance of rose."

Jarod Kintz

"In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace."

Anonymous

"I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win."

Jasmine Warga

"When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest."

Louise Philippe

"No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness."

Rick Yancey

"In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, shelter me.I needmore of the night before I openeyes and heartto illumination. I must stillgrow in the dark like a rootnot ready, not ready at all."

Denise Levertov

"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."

Jess C. Scott

"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen."

Shannon L. Alder

"When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost."

Toba Beta

"Carry the fire."

Cormac McCarthy

"Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness."

Landon Parham

"All I know is a door into the dark"

Seamus Heaney

"When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh"-Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)"

Yvonne Woon

"Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same."

Colum McCann

"God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again."

Thomas Harris

"And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)"

George Sterling

"It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)"

Ron Rash

"The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God."

Ray Comfort

"Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... 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."

Helen Keller

"It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness."

J.E.B. Spredemann

"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."

Suzy Kassem

"It is in the darkest hour, when we are faced with our deepest most wrenching fears, that we are given the greatest strength. The choice is whether we succumb to the fear or rise with courage to face our truth and shine our brilliance as our sword of valor."

Monika Zands

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