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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.