Darkness Quotes

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.