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Quotes About Darkness

Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think … Satan.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.
~ Sri Chinmoy
When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.
~ Graham Parker
Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I don't care what anyone says, the stars give you hope on a dark and gloomy night.
~ Nikki Rowe
During our darkest moments on the edges of time we mostly deny compassion and hope for those who will shape our shadows into light!
~ Vasilios Karpos
Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.
~ Therese May
Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.
~ Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
~ David O. McKay
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
~ John Updike
Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.
~ Larry Heinemann
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
~ Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.
~ Frank Spotnitz
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
~ Gillian Flynn
Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
~ Barack Obama
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.
~ Joseph D'Lacey, Black Feathers
You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.
~ Jeyn Roberts, Dark Inside
The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that's probably why they're the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.
~ Jim Norton
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
~ Thomas Ligotti
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
~ Steven Wright
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
~ Steven Wright