--- title: "12 Darkness Absence Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Darkness Absence quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Darkness Absence sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdd/osho-519_darkness_darkness-is-an-absence-of-light-ego-is-a_898835.jpg" --- > [“Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/darkness-is-an-absence-of-light-ego-is-an-absence-of-awareness/) [Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdd/osho-519_darkness_darkness-is-an-absence-of-light-ego-is-a_898835.jpg) > [Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/darkness-is-absence-of-light-shadow-is-diminution-of-light/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/leonardo-da-vinci-330_absence_darkness-is-absence-of-light-shadow-is-d_2692507.jpg) > [“Darkness is the absence of light.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamal-ravikant/darkness-is-the-absence-of-light/) [Kamal Ravikant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamal-ravikant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/kamal-ravikant-8779_absence_darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-1624184_1624184.jpg) > [“Darkness is not the absence of light. The light will always be there. Darkness only occurs when you move far away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-m-lubao/darkness-is-not-the-absence-of-light-the-light-will-always-be-there/) [Nelson M. Lubao](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-m-lubao/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d79/nelson-m-lubao-52580_darkness_darkness-is-not-the-absence-of-light-the_2685407.jpg) > [Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-absences-do-not-exist-sin-does-not/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/rajneesh-54_absence_darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-absence_561649.jpg) > [“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-d-lounsbrough/darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-therefore-darkness-is-always-fleeing/) [Craig D. Lounsbrough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-d-lounsbrough/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/craig-d-lounsbrough-285_christian_darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-therefo_36604.jpg) > [Darkness is the absence of light so it doesn't chase it but rather it just is. Light is circumstantial and brought by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-so-it-doesn-t-chase-it-but-rather-it/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/anonymous-1_darkness_darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-so-it-d_1453970.jpg) > [“Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-bowen/darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-happiness-is-the-absence-of-pain/) [Jess Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-bowen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/jess-bowen-27475_absence_darkness-is-the-absence-of-light-happine_2105378.jpg) > [“If darkness is really not darkness at all, but rather, the absence of light,  then my flaws are not really flaws at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-hyland/if-darkness-is-really-not-darkness-at-all-but-rather-the-absence-of/) [Beth Hyland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-hyland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60b/beth-hyland-92134_darkness_if-darkness-is-really-not-darkness-at-al_3143650.jpg) > [She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-miller/she-may-be-lying-in-bed-reading-a-book-she-may-be-making-love-with-a/) [Henry Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/henry-miller-179_absence_she-may-be-lying-in-bed-reading-a-book-s_44110.jpg) > [“Evil is a word we use to describe the absence of Good, just as we use the word darkness to describe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-p-young/evil-is-a-word-we-use-to-describe-the-absence-of-good-just-as-we-use/) [William P. Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-p-young/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/william-p-young-3038_darkness_evil-is-a-word-we-use-to-describe-the-ab_1927787.jpg) > [“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we-are-at-odds-with-everything/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/wendell-berry-236_creation_until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we_2360167.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness-absence/#itemlist", "name": "Darkness Absence Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Darkness is an absence of light. 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Both evil and darkness can only be understood in relation to Light and Good; they do not have any actual existence. I am Light and I am Good. I am Love and there is no darkness in me. Light and Good actually exist. So, removing yourself from me will plunge you into darkness. Declaring independence will result in evil because apart from me, you can only draw upon yourself. That is death because you have separated yourself from me: Life.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William P. 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And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest - the cleared fields, the towns and cities, the highways - and re-enter the woods. For only there can a man encounter the silence and the darkness of his own absence. Only in this silence and darkness can he recover the sense of the world's longevity, of its ability to thrive without him, of his inferiority to it and his dependence on it. Perhaps then, having heard that silence and seen that darkness, he will grow humble before the place and begin to take it in - to learn from it what it is. As its sounds come into his hearing, and its lights and colors come into his vision, and its odors come into his nostrils, then he may come into its presence as he never has before, and he will arrive in his place and will want to remain. His life will grow out of the ground like the other lives of the place, and take its place among them. He will be with them - neither ignorant of them, nor indifferent to them, nor against them - and so at last he will grow to be native-born. That is, he must reenter the silence and the darkness, and be born again. (pg. 27, \"A Native Hill\")”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wendell Berry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we-are-at-odds-with-everything/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/wendell-berry-236_creation_until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we_2360167.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/wendell-berry-236_creation_until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we_2360167.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/wendell-berry-236_creation_until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we_2360167.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. 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