Quotes About Darkness

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

All of those who are willing to face the darkness bring the best of themselves to the light, for the world.

I hate it! Charles Wallace cried passionately. I hate the Dark Thing!

The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.

Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light."—Madeleine L'Engle

My heart believed even when my mind faltered. I listened to my heart and I wrote A Wrinkle in Time as an affirmation that there was indeed light in the darkness with which I was surrounded. I wrote it for God.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go of our sane self-control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the Spirit.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.

No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT.

You might call IT the Boss." Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. "IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.

The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of the joy.

And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All these I place By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

The reaper lacks the eyes to hold him back;

In this fateful hour, it was herself she placed between us and the powers of darkness.

The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood.

What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear beyond the possibility of comfort?

At first he saw only the shapely legs of the girl who was leading him, now by the constricted power of aching flesh alone, of pathetic trembling yet brutal lust, through the little glass-paned rooms, that grew smaller and smaller, darker and darker,...

I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.

Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a star will reveal itself.

When you see the sadness, failure, and darknessFind the opportunity to turn on the light of success.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

Cat de mult seamana viata din zilele noastre cu un bal mizerabil: un pic de lumina, un pic de muzica, putin dans, apoi intuneric. Priveste. Luminile au fost deja stinse, resturile de mancare au fost deja aruncate cainilor.

All worlds are whores, forever betraying you and slipping away into the darkness while your soul years for them.

Because the dark, the parents said, the dark is full of things it is definitely better not to meet.