Quotes About Darkness

Wisdom can reveal the light hidden in dark times; but it requires that we face the darkness in ourselves. People may desire pearls of wisdom, yet most are unwilling to descend to the depths where the pearls wait to be found. Wisdom involves a necessary descent into the depths of life, for that alone can produce 'lived knowledge' and a unified vision.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

They had spoken to him of this fear in a thousand conversations over the years, the dread that infected their lives so that every setback, every difficulty— the lost job, the drug-addicted child, the failed marriage— was the result, not of life's uncertainty or human frailty, but of a dark power being wielded against them.

What is commonly called a dark night of the soul is really a dark night of the ego. Knowing this helps you to tap into the space within where healing is possible and miracles happen.

a heavy, hooded wool

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.

The first pale suggestion of dawn has appeared on the horizon as a faint grey smudge. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the real dark night of the soul is always three o'clock in the morning, but that's not right. The darkest part of the night is just before dawn when we wake and peer through the curtains and wonder where the world has gone.

They never confessed that somewhere between the ambushes and booby traps and humping in the glaring sun, they lost hope. Somewhere in the blackness of the night, they lost faith. And in the end, there was nothing to separate them from the devil.

calling the nightmare

the worst thing about prison was the dementors

Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was gone and the dark had truly come there was no way he could avoid the dead faces of his children.

THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST

Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected.

He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark

The rebel groups were loosely coordinated, inspired by millenarian hopes for the coming of the Maitreya Buddha and Manichaean-tinged beliefs about the imminent arrival of a saviour, a prince of light, who would defeat the powers of darkness.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

That night, the three of us slept, arms wrapped around each other, on the double bed, though nothing sexual happened. As though we simply needed to protect ourselves; as though we could feel some dark presence, some evil subterranean force moving about the island.

Mes yeux avaient fini par s'habituer à la noirceur et je l'ai vu sortir un grand mouchoir de sa poche de pantalon. Il s'est essuyé les yeux, s'est mouché. Le mouchoir virevoltait dans le noir comme un petit fantôme blanc.

Iar razbunarea e aceasta: intrucat noi l-am ucis pe el, el asa mort cum este ne-a luat lumina si cu ochii inchisi i-a inchis pe-ai nostri, care nu mai stralucesc deasupra pamantului.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all.

It stood. It faced me. Dark, dark against the sea. I saw its arms hanging at its sides. I saw that one shoulder was higher than the other. I saw its wet round head.

Zwart ijs... Witte beren, rood bloed. Ze zoeken het oog van de adder... In het oog gaan is in het donker gaan. Misschien kun je de weg naar buiten vinden, Wolfjongen. Maar wanneer je eenmaal binnen bent, zul je nooit meer heel zijn. Een deel van je blijft daar beneden. In het donker. - De Loper

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all. What's at the back of the cave?