Best Dark Quotes

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it’s dark around you.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don’t just survive. Celebrate.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,What old December’s bareness everywhere!

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.

I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

the leading error of the human mind, – the bane of human happiness – the perverter of human virtue … is Religion – that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion – that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion – that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion – that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it’s hard; it’s painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I’m not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible.

Other sound than the owl’s voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters–all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

In the dark, all cats are grey.