darkness quotes

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

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.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… 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.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.