Quotes about Darkness
Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.
— Ayn Rand
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
— Pope John Paul II
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— JRR Tolkien
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
— Carl Jung
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
— Wendell Berry
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God must be trusted out of sight, i.e., when we cannot see which way it is possible for him to fulfil his word; everything but God's mere word makes it look unlikely, so that if persons believe, they must hope against hope. Thus the ancient Patriarchs, and Job, and the Psalmist, and Jeremiah, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego, and the Apostle Paul, gave glory to God by trusting in God in darkness
— Jonathan Edwards
This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible," a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.
— Eric Metaxas
A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.
— El-P
I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew hte falsity of the reasoning; he knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how fearfully they avoided the idea of it.
— Graham Greene