Darkness Quotes
3024 Darkness quotes by 1686 unique authors
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I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm,…
— Pythagoras
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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
— Cormac McCarthy
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And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they…
— Mark Haddon
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
— Franz Kafka
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When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still…
— Neil Gaiman
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Light up the darkness
— Bob Marley
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
— Bram Stoker
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If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as…
— Daniel Webster
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Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people…
— Haruki Murakami
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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of…
— Graham Greene
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart…
— Albert Camus
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Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no…
— Ian Mcewan
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The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity:…
— Allen Ginsberg
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
— Albert Einstein
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...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare.…
— Annie Proulx
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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie…
— Thomas Moore
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Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
— Michael O'Brien
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...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
— David Eddings
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In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
— James A. Baldwin
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