90+ Dark Quotes, And Sayings

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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.

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

When faced with the pull of darkness, choose light.
It’s futile to curse the darkness; why not instead light a candle?

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

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. ― Plato

Dark Quotes

One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo

To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. – Napoleon Bonaparte

You have the power to bring light to life from darkness.
Without darkness, how would you know how much to appreciate brighter days?

Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert H Schuller

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

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

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

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. – Carl Jung

God’s light is more powerful than darkness.- Kelly Lorencin

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.– Kenji Miyazawa

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

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. – Carl Jung

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

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

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. – A Ring of Endless Light

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. – Martha Graham

I wonder if that’s how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don’t want it to win. — Jasmine Warga

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. ― Terry Pratchett,

I know a thing or two about pain and darkness. Twenty-One Pilots

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen

And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes/ I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon. – Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds. – Ana Claudia Antunes

I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into the fire and into ice. Dante.

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart? What jailer so inexorable as one’s self! – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ― William Shakespeare

And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes/ I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon. – Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

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. — Carl Jung

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. ― Friedrich Nietzsche,

All darkness vanished when I saw the lamp within my heart. Kabir

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

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.– Joseph B. Wirthlin

When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through. — Drake

There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good. ― Sarah J. Maas

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. William L. Watkinson.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. — Julia Cameron

Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. – L.M. Montgomery

I envy people that know love. That has someone who takes them as they are. ― Jess C Scott,

What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest. – Rumi.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun. – Shaun Hick

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

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. – Ray Davis

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
— Marianne Williamson

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, and kills laughter. ― J.R.R. Tolkien

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. – Deborah Norville.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Friedrich Nietzsche.

It is always darkest just before the Day (sic) dawneth. – Thomas Fuller

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light. — Marianne Williamson

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.– Duke Ellington

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ― Jean Genet

Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much damage, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine. – E.M. Forster

Where there is hatred let me sow love … / Where there is darkness, light … – Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert Kennedy

No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light! — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. – Barbara Johnson.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

But I know a thing or two about pain and darkness – Lane Boy,

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ― Carl Jung

I think we all have light and dark inside us. — Sean Penn

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

In the midst of darkness, light persists. Mahatma Gandhi

And the clouds perished; Darkness had no need / Of aid from them—She was the Universe. – Darkness, Lord Byron

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. – Haruki Murakami

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole. ― C.G. Jung,

The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman!

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis

There is something to be said for the night. The darkness holds a sense of promise as if anything could happen. – Fear University,

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz

Live with grace and dignity. It’s a middle finger to the darkness. — Jamie Tworkowski

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and there is only darkness in the end. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. ― Stephen King

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness! — Tara Brach

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.

We all walk in the dark and each must learn to turn on his or her own light. – Earl Nightingale

I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. – Twilight,

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of a mere being. — Carl Jung

Hello, darkness, my old friend! I’ve come to talk with you again! – Simon & Garfunkel

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. Anne Lamott

I think it’s great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. – Robin Williams

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon

Why not dare yourself to become a shining positive light where darkness is the only thing known? — Edmond Mbiaka

I walk in the darkness so that others may see the light.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun. ― Shaun Hick

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. – Desiderius Erasmus

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door. – Unknown

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. – Epictetus

Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty. ― Sarah J. Maas,

Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding.

Tom Hardy as Bane, A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. – Charles Spurgeon

We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Barbara De Angelis

She wears strength and darkness equally well, The girl has always been half goddess, half hell ― Nikita Gill

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

What makes night within us may leave stars. – Victor Hugo

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