Darkness Quotes

3024 Darkness quotes by 1686 unique authors

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. — Mahatma Gandhi
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like… — Ian Shoales
Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and… — John F. Kennedy
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest? — Mark Twain
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not… — Plato
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained. — John Updike
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from… — Sigmund Freud
Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because… — Roni Horn
We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness. — Mary E. DeMuth
When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. — Steve Kazee
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul. — Daria Halprin
The darkness declares the glory of the light. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of… — Abraham Lincoln
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep… — Sydney J. Harris
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. — James Russell Lowell
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous. — William McFee
Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But… — Henry Van Dyke
Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house,… — Garrison Keillor
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly. — Euripides
Slavery is the offspring of darkness. — Simon Bolivar
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. — Blaise Pascal
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. — Iris Murdoch
There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains. — Isaac Watts
These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or… — Herodotus

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