Darkness Quotes
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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 -
Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
W. S. Merwin
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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
Richard Scott Bakker -
Don't say nothing bout the old house. Cos I burned it to the ground. And when the darkness comes, I lie awake. Playing lost and found
Pete Yorn -
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung -
We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big...
Natsuki Takaya -
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Yousuf Karsh -
There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.
D. H. Lawrence -
When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
Natalie Goldberg -
If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
R. Kelly -
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.
Pablo Neruda -
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
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It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.
Hafsat Abiola -
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.
P. M. H. Atwater -
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
Lasse Hallstrom -
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
John Milton -
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.
Harold B. Lee
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There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .
Zoe Akins -
And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behaviour whistling in the dark. Well, I guess that when you found yourself in the dark, you might as well whistle. It wasn't always going to be morning , and darkness would come around again. The sun would rise, and then the sun would set. And there you were in the darkness again. If you didn't whistle, the quiet and the dark would swallow you up.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi