Quotes About Darkness

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back.

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

I reached this turning point where I was either going to dwell in the darkness or I was just going to slap myself around the face a few times and say, 'Wake up; you're incredibly blessed. Focus on all the great things.'

As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.

It turns out, if you go 1,000 feet down in the ocean, it's really dark, and the animals are really strange, but if you put on some Pink Floyd, it's fantastic.

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

Sometimes the scariest things in life aren't the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn't want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

Who the hell is that?! Some call her Satan. Others, Beelzebub. She goes by many names.

I feed off men. I lure them with my sexual tricks, then bite off their heads while they sleep." "Ain't She Sweet?.

Felicity's voice came dark and sinister. "Bring me the head of Nikola Tesla.