Darkness Quotes - page 2

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. (Buckminster Fuller)
If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. View quote
Pythagoras
The darkness has it's own light. View quote
Theodore Roethke
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. View quote
Jean Genet
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. View quote
Iris Murdoch
For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. View quote
Robert Browning
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness. (Ann Druyan)
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. View quote
Francis Bacon
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. View quote
John Muir
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. View quote
Helen Keller
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. View quote
Stephen King
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. View quote
Louis Aragon
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. View quote
Carl Jung
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. View quote
Julia Cameron
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. (Werner Herzog)
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. View quote
Confucius
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. View quote
Anna Quindlen
Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz