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- Nov 07, 2020
Darkness Quotes
Most Famous Darkness Quotes of All Time!
Darkness in this collection isn't only literal - it's the chaos lurking just beneath civilization's surface, and the harder emotional territory people find themselves drawn to explore in their early twenties. There's a certain fascination running through these lines, a theme also touched on in our Lost quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget what happened on August 14, 2003. I know the exact sequence of where I was for every moment of that evening. It was a tragic day, and it's burned into my memory. Many people might remember that date, vaguely, as the date of the infamous eastern seaboard blackout that plunged all of New York City into darkness.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
- Text
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
Others frame darkness as something to actively stand against, a spiritual struggle requiring resolve rather than resignation. Whatever form it takes, these reflections sit well alongside our Silence and Pain collections.