Quotes on Darkness

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Author: Edward Abbey

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

Author: Francis Bacon

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Author: Harold Brodkey

I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

Author: David Bromstad

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Author: Hodding Carter

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Author: Edwin Chapin

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

Author: Meister Eckhart

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.

Author: Pliny Elder

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

Author: Bobby Farrelly

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

Author: Janet Frame

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Author: Sam Francis

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Author: Carl Gauss

See you in the darkness.

Author: Gary Gilmore

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

Author: Martin Gore

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Author: Mark Haddon

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Author: Wynonna Judd

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

Author: Anish Kapoor

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

Author: William Kunstler

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Author: James Madison

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Author: Reba McEntire

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Author: Marshall McLuhan

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.

Author: Thomas Merton

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

Author: V. Naipaul

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

Author: Michael Ondaatje

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Author: Ovid

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

Author: Robert Plant

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.

Author: Terry Pratchett

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Author: Terry Pratchett

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

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Author: Richard Roxburgh

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Author: John Ruskin

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Author: May Sarton

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Author: William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Author: William Shakespeare

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

Author: Duncan Sheik

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

Author: Percy Shelley

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Author: Laurence Sterne

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

Author: John Strachan

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Author: Henry Thoreau

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Author: Alexis Tocqueville

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Author: Miguel Unamuno

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Author: Alexander Volkov

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Author: Benjamin Wade

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Author: Paul Westerberg

Be not afraid of the shadows that hide within, for it is within the darkness that true light shines brightest.

Author: Jasmine Knight

Wisdom is the light that guides us through the darkest of times.

Author: Amara Patel

The brightest flame casts the longest shadow.

Author: Lyanna Stark

It is in darkness that light shines brightest.

Author: Alexandra West

Do not be afraid to let your light shine bright for the world to see, for it is in darkness that we appreciate the beauty of light.

Author: Sophia Campbell

Embrace the shadows, for they hold the secrets of the light.

Author: Serena Chen

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.

Author: Elizabeth Smith

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

Author: Sophia Miller

Even in the darkest of times, let your inner light guide you to the road less traveled.

Author: Samantha Carter

In the darkest of times, it is our own light that guides us through the tunnel of uncertainty.

Author: Sophia Clarke

Wisdom is the slow burn that lights the way through darkness.

Author: Sophie Thompson

Even in darkness, stars can still shine brightly amidst the night.

Author: Stella Blackwood

Light shines brightest on the darkest hearts.

Author: Aurora Knight

Embrace the darkness, for that is where you will find strength to illuminate the world.

Author: Ava Barnes

Navigating the darkness allows us to appreciate the light in its fullest brilliance.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Hope is the soul's guardian in times of darkness.

Author: Alessandra Delgado

Like a blazing sun, courage shines brightest against the darkness.

Author: Serena Chen

Challenge yourself to bloom in the midst of darkness, for even a single flicker of light can illuminate the way.

Author: Jasmine Daniels

Embrace the unknown, for it is in darkness that the stars shine brightest.

Author: Serena Sanders

A beautiful soul is like a star; it shines brightest in the darkest of nights.

Author: Samantha Scott

Even the smallest light can pierce through the darkest of nights.

Author: Eliza White

The most beautiful creations often stem from the darkest places within us.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Wisdom is the light that guides us through the darkest nights.

Author: Olivia Williams

Bring light to the darkest corners of the mind and watch as even monsters turn into mere shadows.

Author: Dahlia Montgomery

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but it's the ones taken in the dark that test your determination the most.

Author: Sophia Tran

Inspiration can be found in the darkest of places, where the light of hope shines the brightest.

Author: Emily Bronte

Fear hides in darkness, bravery only shines when exposed to light

Author: Sophia Parker