Darkness Quotes

And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

~ Charles Bukowski

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.

~ Bertrand Russell

I was made to rule the darkness.

~ Rae Hachton

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone else’s—before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end.

~ Lemony Snicket

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.

~ Lionel Pigot Johnson

Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?

~ Terry Pratchett

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.

~ Lee Argus

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

~ Cassandra Clare

So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself,to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.

~ Sweara Ahmed

If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness.

~ Debasish Mridha

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

~ Emily Dickinson

I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

~ Sylvia Plath

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

~ Munia Khan

In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, shelter me.I needmore of the night before I openeyes and heartto illumination. I must stillgrow in the dark like a rootnot ready, not ready at all.

~ Denise Levertov

The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.

~ Wallace Stevens

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)

~ Chimnese Davids

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

~ Charles Bukowski

I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands

~ Munia Khan

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.

~ Steven Erikson

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

~ Patrick Overton

At the dawn of light, darkness disappears.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Depart from the deeds of darkness. Return to path of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let your faith be in the Lord Jesus and not in your strength, to fight against ungodliness and injustice in the society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you stand firm in the light, you can never be diminish by the doom of darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold the flame of faith, it quench all doubt of darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free.

~ Criss Jami

The deeper the feelings of unworthiness dug into his heart, the darker the room became. It spread from the outside in, growing darker and moreominous with each new thought. He feared it would swallow him whole.

~ Michael Chrobak

As he walked, he felt the darkness behind him, following him. He swore he heard it whisper, “Run!

~ Michael Chrobak

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

~ Ryan Adams

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

~ William T. Vollmann

When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.

~ Louise Philippe

Whoever turns to the Lord, shall walk in the light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

~ Toba Beta