Quotes About Darkness

Allmovements are accomplished in six stages, and the seventh brings return.... Seven is the number of young light. and it arises whensix, the number of the great darkness, is increased by one. THE I CHING1

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are, therefore, the true sources of Superstition.

This world is being directed by a level of evil that is almost impossible to comprehend.

We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.

5. DEATH OF EGYPTIAN CATTLE. Exodus 9:3 and 6 6. BOILS AND BLAINS. Exodus 9:8–12 Boils and blains seem to go together. Blains were blisters, small inflammations of the skin that were filled with pus. 7. HAIL AND FIRE. Exodus 9:13–35 8. LOCUSTS. Exodus 10:1–20 9. THICK DARKNESS. Exodus 10:21–29

There is symbolism here. When we ignore God or cast Him out of our lives, spiritual darkness fills in where His light was. This darkness can be felt. In fact, no doubt you have literally "felt" evil, when you have approached it, considering participating in it, or while it was being practiced by others, or when approached by individuals and groups engaged in gross evil.

Bram Stoker, working in a largely intuitive manner, and no doubt propelled by more than a few personal demons, managed to tap a well of archetypal motifs so deep and persistent that they can assume the shape of almost any critical container.

The truth is I'm in a place without a bright side or a one best thing. I'm in a place where, honest to God, you feel you can kill your friends just by asking the names of stars.

Darkness does something to a place, doesn't it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes.

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

My sense is that we are looking at unbelievable quantities of wealth moving from the control of the kingdom of darkness, to the control of the Kingdom of God.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.