Darkness Quotes

Be under the broad day light and act rightly, go into the dark night and do the same thing. Never let what you do in light and darkness mis-match. That’s a good character of leadership!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The darkness surrounding can envelop one,but if you light only one match, you have defeated it all.

~ M.i.m. Răphæl

You might be surrounded in a room of utter darkness, but if you light only one match, all the darkness is defeated.

~ Michelle Ivezic

Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.

~ Julie E. Czerneda

Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We do not believe that light exists in spite of darkness. We believe that light exists because of it.

~ Sharon Bayliss

Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues- 1654

~ Esmerelda Jane Forstine

The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.

~ Sharon Bayliss

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I know some things—I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know where I came from. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something—more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

~ Veronica Roth

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

~ Luther Burbank

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew Forme to our Work and trew Perspective to our Fabrick, for there is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe (and I turn this Thought over in my Mind: what Life is there which is not a Portmanteau of Shaddowes and Chimeras?). I build in the Day to bring News of the Night and of Sorrowe, I continued, and then I broke off for Walter's sake.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling down from the highest to the lowest, darkest vibrations..

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

~ Anna White

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

~ Allie Burke

The next time that something seemingly bad happens to you, look for the divine in it. Look for the soul in the mundane, every day occurrences of your life. Look for the spark, look for the light.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There’s this thing about shadows.They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact that we are not alone, we are never alone.They follow and they obey much like a disciple and his teacher. But when in darkness, they abandon us and are as lost as we are, they seek the same light we seek for only light can bring back their identity and ours.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.

~ Angelica Hopes

Stars are God’s way of showing us that light can survive the darkness and shine through – that there is hope, even in dark times. That the darkness isn’t all there is.

~ J.w. Lord

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

No matter how fast light travels, light will always find darkness, waiting.

~ A. Spencer

One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn’t the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light.

~ J.w. Lord

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, still shines in our hearts with the inextinguishable light of Christ ... and when the sinner turns to the way of repentance the light smooths away every trace of the sins committed, clothing the former sinner in the garments of incorruption, spun of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. It is this acquisition of the Holy Spirit about which I have been speaking.

~ Seraphim Of Sarov

Give me something in between the spectrums of light, darkness and sound and most days I will create something out of it for you.

~ Dimitri Zaik

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

~ Veronica Roth

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

~ Alan Brennert

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.

~ J.k. Rowling

I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm standing alone, the space starting to brighten as the light grows.

~ Suzanne Young

From darkness; take me unto Light.O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight.From sorrow; give me the strength to break. And help me to love and to care.From darkness take me unto Light.O God! Hear my prayers and let in the sunlight. (excerpts of my poem from my book 'From the Silence Within')

~ Madhavi Sood

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

In the Darkness, there's always a Light which Shines Bright!

~ #Name?

I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

~ Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Self-esteem is the switch in the circuit of your life that dims or brightness of your future. Bring it low and you don't shine your light, raise it up and you brighten the corner where you are.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.

~ Jaeda Dewalt