Darkness Light Quotes

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all. ~ James Michael Pratt

If there was no darkness, there would be no opportunity for light to overcome it. ~ Kristy Cambron

We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of? ~ Mark Frost

One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn't the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. ~ J.W. Lord

I don't fear what hides in the darkness. I fear what hides in the light. ~ Unknown

Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light? ~ Seth Adam Smith

The light extinguishes all the flaming arrows of darkness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no darkness light cannot conquer ~ Rick Julian

Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within. ~ Emily Thorne

Even though it's dark and cold there is always a shade of light. ~ Angela Bernabe

How could she have gone from the most exhilarating thing that has ever happened in her life to a moment filled with pure humiliation? She tries to conjure up the light that skipped in her veins earlier when Charles held her. But it only fades in the familiar darkness. ~ Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage

Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Shine as light in the darkness of every human sphere of life ~ Sunday Adelaja

After many years the woman died, of natural causes. And a few years after that, the ogre died. Eventually, his mistresses died, down on the ground, in the people village, over decades. The war men and women died. The human girl who had escaped her early death died, across the land, over by the ocean, in her shack of blue bowls and rocking chairs. The witch, who had originally made the cake and made up up the spell and given it as a gift to her beloved ogre friend, died.
The cake went on and on. Time passed...
And the cake, always wanting to please, the cake who had found a way to survive its endlessness by recreating its role over and over again, tried to figure out, in its cake way, what this light-dappled object might want to eat. So it became darkness, a cake of darkness. It did not have to be human food. It did not have to be digestible through a familiar tract. It lay there on the dirt, waiting, a simmering cake of darkness. Through time, and wind, and earthquakes, and chance. At last the cloak fell out of the tree and blew across the land and happened upon the cake where it ate its darkness and extinguished its own dappled light. The cloak disappeared into night and was not seen again, as it was only a piece of coat shaped darkness now and could not be spotted so easily, had there been any eyes left to see it. It floated and joined with nowhere.
Darkness was overtaking everything, anyway, pouring over the land and sky. The cake itself, still in the shap ~ Aimee Bender

Hold on to the darkness ... I will come looking for your light. ~ Dimitri Zaik

If we indeed possess light we shall never be afraid to go and face darkness anywhere, any-time. ~ Sunday Adelaja

If there is always light, you don't experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness. ~ Bruce Lee

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye. ~ Charles Lindbergh

Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage. ~ Toni Sorenson

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you. ~ Libba Bray

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~ Terry Pratchett

For those who can see well in the darkness, there is no darkness and for those who cannot see well even in the light, there is no light! Neither darkness nor light but only your talents matter most! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm standing alone, the space starting to brighten as the light grows. ~ Suzanne Young

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ~ John Milton

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness. ~ Ted Dekker

It's dark because you're trying too hard," said Susila. "Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. 'Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.' I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly - it was the best advice ever given me. Well, now I'm going to say the same thing to you, Lakshmi . . . Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Goethe or Little Nell. And, of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the Clear Light. So throw away all your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling. On tiptoes; and no luggage, not even a sponge bag. Completely unencumbered. ~ Aldous Huxley

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. ~ Alice Hoffman

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness. ~ Ephrem The Syrian

Who's to say my light is better than your darkness? ~ Daniel Keyes

You cannot let the darkness overcome the light. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness. ~ Aleksandar Hemon

If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it. ~ Sunday Adelaja

You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?' I nodded. 'Well, love is like that. Light doesn't have to announce it's way into a room or ask the darkness to leave. It just is. It walks ahead of you, and the darkness rolls back like a tide.' She waved her hand across the room. 'It has to 'cause darkness can't be where light is. ~ Charles Martin

Shower the darkness with love
and watch light illuminate. ~ Melody Lee

Nothing is dark when you embosom your own light within you ~ Munia Khan

Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness. ~ Jared Leto

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. ~ Bram Stoker

Light lost in dark.
Dark died in light. ~ Toba Beta

But light could not be so swiftly overcome by darkness. Not when that light rested in a person's soul. ~ Nadine Brandes

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness! ~ James Freeman Clarke

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness. ~ George Vecsey

But men have loved darkness rather than light. ~ Sunday Adelaja

In the absence of light, you find the brightest parts of you. ~ Elvis Bittner

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. ~ John Milton

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light. ~ Marie Lu

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness. ~ Ted E. Brewerton

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness. ~ Bentley Little

If you follow the light of the world, you will never walk in darkness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She wanted to tell him that she loved him, but she kept her convoluted and confused thoughts to herself. He was her light in the darkness, but she was unsure if it was actual love or a form of Stockholm syndrome. ~ Emmie White

If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them. ~ Sunday Adelaja

I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live. ~ Antonia Perdu

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. ~ Gavin Esler

Post Tenebras Lux. After Darkness, Light. ~ Paulo Coelho

The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become. ~ Wallace Stevens

Light is warmer than darkness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light. ~ N.D. Wilson

One goes into the darkness to bring some light. ~ Marty Rubin

The sun has but half a meaning without the shadow it casts into the ocean of the world. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

May all your days be filled with twinkles so bright that even in the darkest depths you shine brightly ~ Carmela Dutra

Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.

And out of the end of his wand burst, not a shapeless cloud of mist, but a blinding, dazzling, silver animal. He screwed up his eyes, trying to see what it was. It looked like a horse. It was galloping silently away from him, across the black surface of the lake. He saw it lower its head and charge at the swarming dementors. . . . Now it was galloping around and around the black shapes on the ground, and the dementors were falling back, scattering, retreating into the darkness. . . . They were gone.

The Patronus turned. It was cantering back toward Harry across the still surface of the water. It wasn't a horse. It wasn't a unicorn, either. It was a stag. It was shining brightly as the moon above. . . it was coming back to him. . . .

It stopped on the bank. Its hooves made no mark on the soft ground as it stared at Harry with its large, silver eyes. Slowly, it bowed its antlered head. And Harry realized. . . "Prongs," he whispered.

But as his trembling fingertips stretched toward the creature, it vanished. ~ J.K. Rowling

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist. ~ S. N. Goenka

Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining. ~ Terrence Malick

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes. ~ Plato

When stars shine, they bring forth the light in darkness. Be that type of a star! ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Don't be afraid of the darkness; just carry a light with you! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am Sa'kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down."

--(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.) ~ Brent Weeks

He says we are not forsaken. For while I wonder for what we live and struggle and die, for while I wonder what keeps us living and struggling, men are sent to minister to the blind ... Who gives, at this one hour, a friend to make darkness light before me? ~ Alan Paton

A shooting star yields very little light. ~ Marty Rubin

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it. ~ Kayla Mueller

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs. ~ Thomas Merton

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. ~ Francis Of Assisi

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. ~ George Eliot

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. ~ Socrates

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness. ~ Joshua

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness. ~ Lucretius

Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors. ~ Johannes Itten

Beyond the edge of universe,
there's a kind of real darkness ...
where even the light gone astray. ~ Toba Beta

I know you don't want to stand up to the bullies, the peace-breakers, or even the demons among you. You want someone else to handle it, someone else to tell them to stop, someone else to bring the peace. And very often in your life, there will be someone else, and you'll be able to stay in your place of peace. But other times, the peace you crave can only be found by fighting the battle, and the light you crave can only be seen by fighting the darkness. ~ Sean Patrick Brennan

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. ~ Robert Carlyle

Light a candle against the darkness... ~ Sylvain Reynard

In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness. ~ Akshay Vasu

Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,
With purpose to explore or to disturb
The secrets of your realm, but by constraint
Wand'Ring this darksome desert, as my way
Lies through your spacious empire up to light,
Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seek
What readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds
Confine with Heav'n; or if som other place
From your Dominion won, th' Ethereal King
Possesses lately, thither to arrive
I travel this profound, direct my course;
Directed no mean recompence it brings
To your behoof, if I that Region lost,
All usurpation then expelled, reduce
To her original darkness and your sway
(Which is my present journey) and once more
Erect the Standard there of ancient Night;
Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge.
970-987 ~ John Milton

Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ... ~ John Milton

What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three. ~ Blue Balliett

If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Here's to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us. ~ L.R. Knost

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light. ~ Mother Teresa

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness. ~ Christopher Pike

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness. ~ Malala Yousafzai

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

Darkness fears light,
but light does not fear darkness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. ~ Jeanette Winterson

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it. ~ Bell Hooks