Darkness Quotes
3024 Darkness quotes by 1686 unique authors
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To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'
— George W. Bush
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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.…
— Joseph Conrad
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After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
— Laozi
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Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always…
— Todd McFarlane
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I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes…
— Randall Jarrell
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
— Gustave Flaubert
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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from…
— Horace Bushnell
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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It…
— Thomas Paine
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I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be…
— Annie Leibovitz
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The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
— Carl Jung
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My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it…
— Carl Jung
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter…
— Malcolm Lowry
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Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us…
— Johannes Itten
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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough…
— Alan Shepard
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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…
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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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…
— Paula Cole
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Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play…
— William Kurelek
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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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