Darkness Quote by W. H. Auden

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well…

— Jonathan Swift

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

— Paul Tillich

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

— Jonathan Swift

“[T]he very existence of such powers argues a counterforce. We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use a species of…

— Gene Wolfe

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

— Taylor Momsen

There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a…

— Bertrand Russell

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

The most profound things are inexpressible.

— Jenny Holzer

The darkness blinds the eye to what is to be, yet the light just shows what is not.

— Anonymous

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it…

— Louis Aragon

“The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible”

— Josh Waitzkin

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

— Ned Vizzini