Darkness Quotes

3024 quotes by 1797 authors

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics… — Aberjhani
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute… — Gregory of Nyssa
All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to light, from narrowness… — Clifford Stoll
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the… — Alexander Pope
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and… — Lewis H. Lapham
One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study… — Takeda Nobushige
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of… — Oswald Chambers
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. — Marcel Proust
I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by… — Victor Hugo
No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light. — Wes Fesler
Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink… — Kristi Yamaguchi
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… — Patricia Cornwell
I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine. — Frank D. Gilroy
How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it… — John Milton
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; — Edward Lear

Who Wrote These Darkness Quotes

1,797 authors contributed a total of 3,024 Darkness Quotes, led by these top contributors: