#Darkness Quotes

“All dark and comfortless.”

“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”

“Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.”

“We should hold day with the Antipodes,If you would walk in absence of the sun.”

“Making night hideous.”

“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”

“Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.”

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

“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”

“I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.”

“To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.”

“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”

“The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.”

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”

“There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.”

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”

“To think of shadows is a serious thing.”

“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.”

“In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”

“A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.”

“In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”

“Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.”

“There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”

“Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.”

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.”

“It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.”

“If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.”

“If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.”

“In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

“Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”

“As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.”

“In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.”

“My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?”

“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”

“It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.”

“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”

“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”

“Darkness is dawn not yet born.”

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

“The sun is gone, but I have a light.”

“In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.”

“At the darkest moment comes the light.”

“The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”

“The days are short,The sun a sparkHung thin betweenThe dark and dark.”

“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”

“I do not believe this darkness will endure.”