90+ Darkness Quotes, And Sayings

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But there was some undercurrent of understanding between this mother and daughter that had more to do with evil than with love. I was sensible of that immediately. It was as if these two moved together through dark and swirling waters toward some whirlpool they could not avoid. And would not think of avoiding.

Work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.— Anish Kapoor

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Darkness Quotes

Darkness will always be a servant of light.

Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with terrible power.

People are like stained–glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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.

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

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

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

Without the dark, there isn’t light. Without the pain, there is no relief.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.— Mary Renault

And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes/ I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.

I’m telling you. I know all about darkness. That’s why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light.

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

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

I discovered that the dragon had put a charm on me: no weapon could cut me. I could walk up to the mead-hall whenever I pleased, and they were powerless. My heart became darker because of that. Though I scorned them, sometimes hated them, there had been something between myself and men when we could fight. Now, invulnerable, I was as solitary as one live tree in a vast landscape of coal. – John Gardner

There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on. — Rod Serling

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

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

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.

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

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.

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

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. — C. S. Lewis

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

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

He was aware that darkness could take root in pristine gardens, and even good men could fall into shadow.

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

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don’t pretend to understand why, but in my darker moments, I find cold cleansing. Not refreshing so much as necessary.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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.

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

When surrounded by darkness your only duty is to shine.

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.

She could not understand him; the words were indeed remote. Yet as he spoke the darkness was withdrawn, veil after veil, and she saw to the bottom of her soul.

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.

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

I know a thing or two about pain and darkness.

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

What hides in light is greater than what hides in darkness.

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

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

The suffocating darkness had already descended on me and was infesting every inch of my soul as I feared never seeing him again. Nothing they could do to me would be worse than that, worse than the crippling ache that was already in my heart, killing me from the inside out.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better. — Alain Resnais

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

It is better to seek light than to give in darkness.

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.

The death of my childhood naivety had come to pass. I trusted no one and I feared nothing, not even death itself, for everything I loved in this world had already been taken away from me. Ripped from my heart like a bandage. There was nothing left inside but darkness… darkness breeding darkness, and I was at one with it now.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light – whatever that is for you – no matter how far away it seems. — Jan Berry

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

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

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

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.

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

Thank you for seeing the stars within my soul

Life is one long struggle in the dark.— Lucretius

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

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

Where there is hatred let me sow love … / Where there is darkness, light.

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

He could have run, could have wept, could have clung to the sides of the skiff until the darkness took him, but he did none of those things. He stood unflinching before the gathering dark.

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

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

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

When the road you walk is dark, may you always hear, even in your hour of sorrow, the gentle singing of the lark?

I envy people that know love. That has someone who takes them as they are.

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

A book about the Dark Powers of the President, a book in which Abelard argued that the tales the common people told about the president—that he was supernatural, that he was not human—may in some ways have been true. That it was possible that Trujillo was, if not in fact, then in principle, a creature from another world!

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

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

Just as there is power and hope in the light, there is also power and truth in darkness. That’s part of the reason why people often have such a strong fear of darkness. Even those who feel drawn to darkness still are often fearful of it. Explore a selection of quotes related to this unique aspect of darkness.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

a book about the Dark Powers of the President, a book in which Abelard argued that the tales the common people told about the president—that he was supernatural, that he was not human—may in some ways have been true. That it was possible that Trujillo was, if not in fact, then in principle, a creature from another world!

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

No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it.

If darkness is in one’s nature, there’s a difficult choice to be made.

The greater the darkness the brighter your light.

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

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. — Duncan Sheik

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

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

You can love someone who’s in despair without falling into their darkness.

Darkness is like a window to the unknown, or at least what is not known to you.

Light in your mind is better than darkness in your soul.

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

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

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