The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. Naipaul

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Pythagoras

There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
Alexander Volkov

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Alain Resnais

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
Dave Sim

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.
Richard Roxburgh

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
Benjamin F. Wade

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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.
Helen Keller