Quotes About Darkness

The philosophical grail to shine analytical light on the conceptual darkness only distorts the forms of life otherwise flourishing there.

That was my mom. It was like all the terrible things in the world manifested in her into a rebellion against darkness. A defiant exuberance... There is no way on earth, no God so cruel, no fate so callous, that it would let this particular spirit perish.

Releasing contracted thoughts through insight is completely natural. When a child is scared of monsters in the dark, you don't teach him to relax, breathe, or cope. You turn on the lights.

How deep was the grim sorter of the dark and the foul going to send me?

This is my favorite sin: despair.

When fear is allowed to flourish in its dark and lonely medium, then any evil that can be conceived by the fearful imagination will emerge.

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think people have still got an appetite for that type of music-melody and darkness.

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

I could watch 'There Will Be Blood' all day long, and Daniel Plainview is a terrible person - but he's still compelling to watch. That's what makes me want to engage and see what happens next.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.