A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet

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

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
Anish Kapoor

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
Francis Bond Head

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
Alan Thicke

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Ernst Toller

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill Hicks

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

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.
William Kunstler

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
Lasse Hallstrom

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
Pierre Loti

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber