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Quotes About Darkness

May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.
~ Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
~ George Eliot
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
~ Mary McGrory
Batman is dark and moody and spooky and, in some cases, methodical.
~ Paul Dini
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
~ Harry Crews
It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.
~ Wes Craven
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
~ Pam Brown
When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.
~ Lorenzo Snow
Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.
~ Pope Francis
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
~ Black Elk
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
~ Bram Stoker
I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
~ T. S. Eliot
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
~ Thomas Browne
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
~ Victor Hugo
[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.
~ John Wesley
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
~ Lucretius
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
~ Black Elk
Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.
~ Henry Vaughan
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
~ John Green