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.

It is better to light a candle than curse 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he’d taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Even so, one step from my grave,I believe that cruelty, spite,The powers of darkness will in timeBe crushed by the spirit of light.

Darkness promotes speech.

Whatever alleged ‘truth’ is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.