Darkness Quotes

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.