Darkness Quotes
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They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.
Karen Maitland -
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
Salman Rushdie -
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Victor Hugo -
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded.
Charles Hodge -
The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.
A. Meredith Walters -
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
Avicenna -
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson
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Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.
Scott Westerfeld -
There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.
Ted Dekker -
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
Walter de La Mare -
Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.
Karl Haushofer -
I didn’t wanna tell you so many lies, but I waited for darkness to fill my light.
Jeremy Loops -
Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.
Michael Jackson
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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
Tom Stoppard -
There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
Marianne Williamson -
Thus day was turned into night and light into darkness. Some thought that the Giants were rising again in revolt (for at this time also many of their forms could be discerned in the smoke and, moreover, a sound as of trumpets was heard), while others believed that the whole universe was being resolved into chaos or fire.
Cassius Dio -
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
Barbara Johnson -
We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.
Naoko Takeuchi -
I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.
Yehuda Amichai
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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
Erik Larson -
The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
William Shakespeare -
Soon we shall plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our short-lived summers!
Charles Baudelaire -
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
Amy Lowell