Browsing Topic Best Darkness Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’

Don’t curse the darkness, light a candle.

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

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

I sit in darkness so I can see.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Well everybody’s got a secret, son, something that they just can’t face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag ’em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.

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.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why
Should wise men grieve to know that they must die?
The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face
Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour’s crucifixion.

Darkness… When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

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

How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn’t go around criticizing the goodness of others. There’s no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don’t believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They’re like blind people who don’t believe there’s such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don’t believe, because they’re blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.