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Quotes About Darkness

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~ May Sarton
I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.
~ Faith Evans
It's crazy because 'Icy Girl' came when I was in a dark place, but I made it to motivate myself. It was kind of like my anthem for lifting up my spirits.
~ Saweetie
We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.
~ Bruce Cockburn
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
~ William Golding
There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
~ Black Elk
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
~ John Calvin
And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
~ Johnny Cash
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
~ John of the Cross
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
~ Victor Hugo
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
~ Pythagoras
Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, And tell the world that everything's okay, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.
~ Johnny Cash
It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
~ Black Elk
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
~ John Ford
Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.
~ Ken Dodd
when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me
~ Chuck Norris
For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
~ Diana Gabaldon
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
~ Plato
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
~ Khalil Gibran
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Evil draws men together.
~ Aristotle