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Quotes About Darkness

The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
~ Richard Rohr
There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.
~ David Travis
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
~ Bryan Procter
When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.
~ Jaume Collet-Serra
The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.
~ Marcus Dunstan
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
~ Marty Rubin
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
~ Walt Whitman
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
~ Dave Pelzer
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Hope begins in the dark.
~ Anne Lamott
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
~ Arlo Guthrie
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
~ M. Scott Peck
I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
~ T. S. Eliot
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
~ Joseph Campbell
When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not afraid of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.
~ Shelagh Delaney
When reason fails, the devil helps!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.
~ Michelle Paver
My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.
~ Michael Grant, Fear