Darkness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
-- A. E. Housman -
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
-- Abbi Glines -
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.
-- Abu Bakr -
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
-- Al Gore -
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
-- Ala Bashir -
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
-- Alan Thicke -
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
-- Albert Pike -
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
-- Aleatha Romig -
No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
-- Alexander Pope -
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
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.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me.
-- Ali Hewson -
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
-- Alice Walker -
It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
-- Alison Croggon -
I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.
-- Alison Hawthorne Deming -
Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
-- Alistair Begg -
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
-- Allan Bloom -
WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT’S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.
-- Amanda Palmer -
When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.
-- Amit Ray -
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.
-- Anandmurti Gurumaa -
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
-- Andrea Arnold -
Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.
-- Andrew Graham-Dixon -
I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness
-- Andrew McMahon -
Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind
-- Andy Biersack -
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
-- Anish Kapoor -
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 -
This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.
-- Anita Nair -
This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.
-- Ann Wilson -
And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!
-- Anne Bishop -
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
-- Anne Frank -
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.
-- Anne Michaels -
When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
-- Anne Rice -
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.
-- Anne Rice -
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.
-- Annie Baker -
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.
-- Annie Dillard -
If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.
-- Annie Proulx -
Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
-- Anthony de Mello -
We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity...
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
-- Antonin Artaud -
We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
-- Antony Sher -
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
-- Aristophanes -
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
-- Arthur Golden -
The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.
-- Arundhati Roy -
To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.
-- Auguste Piccard -
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
-- Avicenna -
Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.
-- Ayn Rand -
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
-- Bal Gangadhar Tilak -
We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.
-- Barry Hughart -
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
-- Barry Lopez -
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.
-- Barry Lopez -
His black eyes sliced into me, and the corners of his mouth tilted up. My heart fumbled a bit and in that pause, a feeling of gloomy darkness seemed to slide like a shadow over me. It vanished in an instant but I was still staring at him. His smile wasn't friendly. It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.
-- Bell Hooks -
Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.
-- Ben Gibbard -
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
-- Ben Harper -
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
-- Ben Marcus -
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
-- Bentley Little -
I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
-- Bentley Little -
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
-- Betty Friedan -
Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
-- Betty MacDonald -
We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door.
-- Bill Crawford -
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.
-- Bill Withers -
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
-- Black Elk -
It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
-- Black Elk -
Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
-- Bob Goff -
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
-- Bono -
And who knew? That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert, Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven You may have every title, every big shot degree, But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem
-- Boonaa Mohammed -
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
-- Bram Stoker
