Quotes About Darkness

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education 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.

They've made a peace treaty of their own', Eva used to say, when we passed an illuminated window. (In reference to the strict German laws on light blackouts.)

I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.

Kiril Roublev glissa, à longues enjambées sur ses skis, jusqu'à a la station suivante, le long de bois silencieux où l'obscurité semblait naître à ras de terre ainsi qu'une brume insaisissable. Un mince croissant de lune bleu terriblement effilé, épousant la forme d'une gorge idéale, monta dans la nuit. Roublev pensa: Vilaine lune. La peur vient tout à fait comme la nuit.

I now know that to be loved as child means to be watched. In high school, I loved when the teacher turned the lights off. A moment to feel loved and unseen at once. I understand now. We can't be loved when the lights are off.

That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.