Darkness Quotes

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.

Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

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.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.

Where there is darkness, let there be light.

I was the owner of my own darkness.

Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

It's always darkness before the dawn.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.

All cats are grey in the dark.

There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.