Quotes About Darkness

This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the earth.

Ensinem o mais possível aos que nada sabem; a sociedade é culpada de não instruir gratuitamente e responderá pela escuridão que provoca. Uma alma na sombra da ignorância comete um pecado? A culpa não é de quem o faz, mas de quem provocou a sombra.

Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.

It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle against, the people. Beggars

A los ignorantes enseñadles lo más que podáis; la sociedad es culpable por no dar instrucción gratis; es responsable de la oscuridad que con esto produce. Si un alma sumida en las tinieblas comete un pecado, el culpable no es en realidad el que peca, sino el que no disipa las tinieblas

It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?

Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place.

On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like

Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, despair; I have darkness in my soul.

Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.

Os maus têm uma maneira sinistra de ser felizes.

En la noche hay lo absoluto; en las tinieblas lo múltiple. La gramática, esta lógica no admite singular para las tinieblas, la noche es una, las tinieblas son varias.

La tempestad es un pulmón que agrega sin cesar lúgubres agravaciones a lo que ya no tiene matiz, a lo negro.

A los ignorantes, enséñenles la mayor cantidad de cosas posible. La sociedad es culpable por no darles instrucción gratuita; ella debe responder por la oscuridad que con ello produce. Si un alma sumida en sombras comete un pecado, no tiene la culpa el que peca, sino el que ha causado la oscuridad.

What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

El recuerdo de un ser ausente se ilumina en las tinieblas del corazón, y cuanto más completamente va desapareciendo, más brilla; el alma desesperada y obscura ve esta luz en su horizonte como una estrella de la noche anterior.

On ne trouve les diamants que dans les ténèbres de la terre; on ne trouve les vérités que dans les profondeurs de la pensée.

Basta guardare certe persone per diffidarne; si intuisce che sono anime nere, inquieti dietro, minacciosi davanti.

Se un'anima è piena d'ombra, il peccato vi si commette; ma il colpevole non è quegli che ha fatto il peccato, bensì colui che ha fatto l'ombra.»