39 Darkness Quotes

  • When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within. – Johnathan Jena

 

  • It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. – Richard Evans

 

  • Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. – Dorothy Thompson

 

  • Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

 

  • Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. – Mary Oliver

 

  • The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. – Unknown

 

  • Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. – Sophocles

 

  • I said to my soul, be still, and wait…So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. – T.S. Eliot

 

  • Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. – Yoda

 

  • There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. – Bram Stoker

 

  • A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. – Osho

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  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

  • In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. – Sophocles

 

  • Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. – Madeline L’Engle

 

  • In the Darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?. – Nathalia Crane

 

  • My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. – Hellen Keller

 

  • From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. – Charles Manson

 

  • When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. – Ursula K. Le Guin

 

  • There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. – Malcolm Muggeridge

 

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

 

  • If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms. – William Shakespeare

 

  • Darkness and night are mothers of thought. – Dutch Proverb

 

  • Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. – Desmond Tutu

 

  • Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

  • I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light. – Barbara Brown Taylor

 

  • Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. – Christopher Pike

 

  • A stranger’s soul is like a dark forest. – Russian Proverb

 

  • Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

  • Darkness is to space what silence is to sound; i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan

 

  • There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle. – Robert Alden

 

  • It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. – Stephen King

 

  • Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo

 

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

 

  • I wake to a Darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other’s lips and eyes. – Malcolm Lowry

 

  • Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. – Anne Frank

 

  • Only in the darkness can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.

 

  • You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light. – Edward Abbey

 

  • Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King

 

  • Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. – Meister Eckhart