Darkness Quotes - Page 4

• Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Science, World

  1925 Views of Holland.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

  James Thurber

  Death, Dream, Fear

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1163, Library of America

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Towers, World, Flow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 20, 2015

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

  Francis Scott Key

  Acknowledge Him, Promise, Way

  38 Copy quote

• Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Daylight, Kicks

  10 Copy quote

• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Light, Enlightenment

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.304, First Avenue Editions

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Light Life

  108 Copy quote

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Morning, War, Ocean

  Patricia Cornwell (2005). “From Potter's Field”, p.355, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

  Paula Cole

  Zenith, Used, Middle

  9 Copy quote

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, School, Clouds

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Guilt, Les Mis, Causes

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Ironic

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [148]

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Depression, Uplifting, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.183, Macmillan

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

  Bill Hicks

  Responsibility, Long, People

  10 Copy quote

• The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Water, Bars

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
  Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
  Where there is injury, pardon;
  Where there is doubt, faith;
  Where there is despair, hope;
  Where there is darkness, light;
  And where there is sadness, joy.
  O Divine Master,
  Grant that I may not so much seek
  To be consoled as to console,
  To be understood as to understand,
  To be loved, as to love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Sadness

  The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

  807 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Games, Accounts

  8 Copy quote

• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

  20 Copy quote

• The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines brightest with her child in her arms, the father when he forgives his wandering son, and the artist when he or she is drawing attention to grace, by showing the pinprick of light overcoming the darkness in the painting, or the story, or the song. The world knows darkness. Christ came into the world to show us light. I have seen it, have been blinded by it, invaded by it. I will tell its story.

  Andrew Peterson

  Mother, Song, Children

  17 Copy quote

• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Lying, Dark

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

  112 Copy quote

  Show source

• At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Autumn, Sea, Smell

  7 Copy quote

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

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Hate

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.

  183 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Eye, Men, Shows

  John Locke (1824). “Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book”, p.261

  10 Copy quote

  Show source