Quotes about Darkness
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the
— Victor Hugo
Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.
— Frank Herbert
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
— George Eliot
Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.
— Pope Francis
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
— Victor Hugo
[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.
— John Wesley
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
— Dante Alighieri
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
— Henry David Thoreau
All perfection hath some imperfection joined to it in this life, and all our power of sight is not without some darkness.
— Thomas a Kempis