Life Quotes

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.

~ Shauna Niequist

The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.

~ Warsan Shire

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.

~ Anthony Doerr

Life brings darkness so many times, and we feel down in this phase of darkness. But the true value of darkness only realizes when we face the darkness, until we look some sunshine within the darkness.

~ John Magoss

Cassie fumbled helplessly beneath the shade of the ancient oak, still searching for her second shoe.The first had been easy to find, having landed close to where she had kicked it off; and when her hand had finally encountered it, she clutched it to her breast in a gesture of smug triumph. For one brief moment, she felt a twinge of sympathy for the sighted people who would never experience such sweet victory from a task as simple as finding a shoe.

~ Melinda Cross

And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage and the silver bicycle were already painted out by the darkness; most of the commuters too were already in place in their filing-drawer houses. A half-forsaken chasm of time ....

~ Kōbō Abe

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

~ Melody Lee

Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.

~ E. Elias Merhige

It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.

~ Anne Frank

Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.

~ Seth Adam Smith

Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing of yourself. Even those parts that are not so clean have value. In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life.

~ Lashawnda Jones

The darkness you are in, is to make you feel the warmth of light that you aspire for.

~ Damini Aggarwal

It's a trick question, Aquilla. A Mask is not made. She is remade. First she is destroyed. Stripped down to the trembling child that lives at her core. It doesn't matter how strong she thinks she is. Blackcliff diminishes, humiliates, and humbles her. But if she survives, she is reborn. She rises from the shadow world of failure and despair so that she might become as fearful as that which destroyed her. So that she might know darkness and use it as her scim and shield in her mission to serve the Empire.

~ Sabaa Tahir

If you focus on the sunshine in life, you will see the darkness fade.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.

~ Kirsty Logan

You can only diffuse light in dark places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

~ Dean Koontz

Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.

~ Osman Welela

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

~ Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

~ Paul Valéry

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.

~ Catherine Doyle

Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.

~ Solange Nicole

...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.

~ Barbara Brown Taylor

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

~ Ransom Riggs

There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

~ Deanna Herrmann

Fears hide within fears....

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.

~ Silje Akselberg Iversen

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be.

~ T.s. Eliot

Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.

~ Ankita Singhal

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

~ Morris West

Life's markers are never just for one moment in time. Every event holds a key. Each builds upon the other and becomes an indicator towards a higher purpose.

~ Nikki Rosen

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch.

~ Nikki Rosen

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth.

~ John Soos

There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.

~ Jason Gann

If you can see through my eyes, you may see the real beauty I see in poor people, in old age homes, unprivileged children, abandoned houses, empty streets, broken dreams unfulfilled expectations. You can see the new life struggling beneath our comfortable lives.

~ Ratish Edwards

Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.

~ P. Sainath

If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.

~ Q.m. Sidd