Darkness Quotes - page 5

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is. (W. H. Auden)
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea. View quote
John Ruskin
The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours. View quote
Anne Rice
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. View quote
Antonin Artaud
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. View quote
Thom Yorke
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light. View quote
Ian McEwan
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. (Ian McEwan)
O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly. View quote
Callimachus
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Yes. When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. View quote
Maya Angelou
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... View quote
Robert E. Howard
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. (Amy Tan)
Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom? View quote
Cassandra Clare
Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record. View quote
Cassandra Clare
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. View quote
Karen Armstrong
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. View quote
Herodotus