Quotes About Darkness

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Our greatest enemy is the enemy within, for hidden there are dark and destructive emotions. But also hidden there is the light of reason that can lead us to the dawn.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the years course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

We stopped checking for monsters under our beds when we realized they were inside us.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

There is a light in every darkness, you just have to look forward, realize GOD always prevails, and know GOD created a night and day.

Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Începe s? fie târziu în mine. Uite, s-a f?cut întuneric în mâna dreapt? ?i-n salcâmul din fa?a casei.

Gata, Iona? R?zbim noi cumva la lumin?!

sometimes there's someone else, especially when the sky goes dark: the person guiding slowly from behind. That's who I've become in my family.

Being an undead bloodsucker makes everything complicated.

Yo me enamoré de sus demonios, ella de mi oscuridad. Éramos el infierno perfecto

Ese desenlace natural, ese final obligatorio que es la muerte, tiene siempre algo de regreso. Vuelta a la tierra nutricia; vuelta a la matriz de barro, de nuestro barro, que nunca va a ser igual a los otros barros del mundo. La muerte en el exilio es aparentemente la negación del regreso, y éste es quizá su lado más oscuro.

Es evidente que Dios me concedió un destino oscuro. Ni siquiera cruel. Simplemente oscuro. Es evidente que me concedió una tregua. Al principio, me resistí a creer que eso pudiera ser la felicidad. Me resistí con todas mis fuerzas, después me di por vencido y lo creí. Pero no era la felicidad, era sólo una tregua. Ahora estoy otra vez metido en mi destino. Y es más oscuro que antes, mucho más.

Preferí que la oscuridad fuera realmente impenetrable, a prueba de toda rendija iluminada, con tal de que sus estremecimientos de vergüenza, de miedo, qué sé yo, se cambiaran paulatinamente, en otros estremecimientos, más tibios, más normales, más propios de la entrega

Al menos, en la oscuridad se aprende algo. Particularmente se valora la importancia de la luz, la bienaventuranza del sol, la bendición de la electricidad. La televisión, la computadora, el refrigerador, se llaman a silencio, y todos regresamos a un pasado remoto, no importa si con los ojos abiertos o cerrados.

Perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

It's what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It's the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

That Hitler had surrounded himself with thugs and murderers had cast a darker shadow on the years that followed. But

But that was war. Where ignorant armies clash by night.