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Quotes About Darkness

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Light pierces the darkness and is consumed, truth pierces the chaos and is consumed. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. In order to give light, something must be consumed.
~ R.A.Delmonico
Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.
~ Anasazi Foundation
We live in ignorance in the darkness. But the light of the truth set us free.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
~ Tanna Marie Angers, Forbidden
When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.
~ Debasish Mridha
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
The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.
~ Melissa Andrea, Flutter
A Kite in the Wind - with Love, Truth and Honesty - weathered A Wilderness of Voices, Through the Darkness, With Love
~ Sandeep N. Tripathi
Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.
~ Truth Devour, Wantin
Shadows can only exist where there is light.
~ Tehya Sky
I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.
~ Deyth Banger
We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
~ Philip K. Dick
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
~ Edgar Degas
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
~ Marianne Williamson
I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.
~ Bruno Mars
Should the wide world roll awayLeaving black terrorLimitless night,Nor God, nor man, nor place to standWould be to me essentialIf thou and thy white arms were thereAnd the fall to doom a long way.
~ Stephen Crane
The kids cheered every time the lights went on and a spotlight revealed Jimmy [Page] bowing his electric guitar, eliciting stygian growls and demonic shrieks, as if to draw the Dark One from his lair in hell. Invariably, some of the more astute of Led Zeppelin's listeners realized that what they were watching was in part a magic show.
~ Stephen Davis
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
~ Stephen Fry
But, really, I just like horror. Not everything has some dark reason behind it.
~ Stephen Graham Jones