Darkness Quotes
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
Rachel Cohn
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
Pablo Neruda
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
Malala Yousafzai
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
Said Nursi
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis
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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.
Bill Withers
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Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .
Zoe Akins
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Sow flowers to make a garden bloom around you, The thorns you sow will prick your own feet. Arrows shot at others Will return to hit you as they fall. You yourself will come to teeter on the lip Of a well dug to undermine another. Though you look at others with contempt, It's you whose body will be reduced to dust. Humanity is all one body; To torture another is simply to wound yourself. [...]Make your path straight now, by the bright light of day; For pitch darkness will come without warning.
Rahman Baba
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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
Famke Janssen
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Barbara Demick
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The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.
Boyd K. Packer
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
Zach Woods
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
Dada Vaswani
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. Naipaul
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Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.
Karl Haushofer
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
W. S. Merwin
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With every prayer and every thought of love, we release the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our lights are part of God.
Marianne Williamson
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
W. G. Sebald
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
Virginia Woolf
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I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.
Vincent Van Gogh