Quotes About Darkness

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Blue: as yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with it. This color has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. As a hue it is powerful - but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

The light has gone out of my life.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars.