Darkness Quotes

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart

Light, Sorrow, Truly

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo

God, Children, Down

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.
Mitt Romney

Greatest, America, Liberty

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot

Light, Shall, Dancing

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Future, Past, Spirit

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

Help, Evil, Cure

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Game, Account

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Two, Soul

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo

Women, Great, Through

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

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

Sweet, Solitude, Cheer

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

Hope, Light, Able

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

Work, Great, Beautiful

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.
Sarah McLachlan

Love, Hurt, Light

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke

Men, Eyes, Before

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John Ruskin

Light, While, Walk

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
Kevin Bacon

Life, Fear, Anger

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny the Elder

Live, Reach, Measure

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan

Art, Criticism, Might

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bad, Evil, Deep

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

God, Light, Reason

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.
Vladimir Nabokov

Two, Light, Sense

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John Milton

Confusion, Light, Order

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Real, Eyes, Meaning

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

Long, Person, Tell

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann

Men, Light, Artist

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

Nature, Men, Hands

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Horace

Travel, Through, Before

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul

Death, Evening, Lovely

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison

Political, Done, Almost

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