Darkness Quotes

To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

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.

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

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness.

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.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

The brightest stars emerge out of the blackest darkness

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.