Darkness Quotes

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light? (Plato)
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
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. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Nausicaä: Life is a winking light in the darkness. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. View quote
Carl Jung
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
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. (Reba McEntire)
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. View quote
Og Mandino
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. View quote
Marianne Williamson
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. View quote
Helen Keller
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. View quote
Boris Pasternak
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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. View quote
Carl Jung
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. (Terry Pratchett)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. View quote
Yousuf Karsh
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 always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame