Quotes on darkness

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

William Shakespeare

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

Mary Oliver

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

Jess C Scott

“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”

Pablo Neruda

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”

C.G. Jung

“The end is what draws light faster.”

Anthony T. Hincks

“You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.”

Adam Gidwitz

“Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.”

Christina Dodd

“All I know is a door into the dark”

Seamus Heaney

Hope is the spark that ignites your soul and keeps you going in the darkest of times.

C. Kennedy

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Khalil Gibran

I want to see your face in the darkness.

Pablo Neruda

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

Lana Del Rey

The best stories often come from the darkest places.

Lisa Unger

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.

Paul McCartney

In darkness, we find our most unexpected companions: courage and insight.

Victor Robert Lee

Sometimes you have to go through the darkness to reach the light.

David Cook

In a world full of darkness, be the light that others can follow.

A.G. Howard

Art must not shy away from the dark, for it is in darkness that we find light.

Adam Zagajewski

The darkest nights make the stars shine brighter.

Aimee Cabo Nikolov

Your mind, my friend, is the darkness in which the very stars above shine all the brighter.

Alan Moore

Sometimes the darkness can lead to the brightest of lights.

Aleatha Romig

Hope is the light that guides us through the darkest times.

Alexandra Lanc

The stars are not afraid of the darkness; they are born in it.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hope is the light that guides us through the darkness.

Alice James

Hope is the thing that keeps us alive, even in the darkest times.

Ally Condie

In the darkest moments, hope can shine the brightest.

Allyse Near

Hope is the light that illuminates our darkest paths.

Amal El-Mohtar

Love is the most powerful force in the universe, capable of overcoming even the darkest of times.

Amanda Ashley

Love is the light that guides us through even the darkest of nights.

Amanda Ashley

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Thomas Fuller

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

Morris Mandel

I am drawn to the darkness in you, but I will not be consumed by it.

Eric Northman

In the darkest moments, we find who we are meant to be.

Paedyn Gray

Power is not given; it’s awakened in the darkest hours.

Paedyn Gray

To find light, sometimes you must journey into darkness.

Paedyn Gray

Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.

Kim Harrison

The darkness will always be there, but it’s up to us to choose whether or not to dwell in it.

Cate Tiernan

It is a gift to know that darkness cannot hide us if we carry our own light.

Jack Gilbert

Hope is an anchor, and hope is all we have to hold to in times of darkness.

Herman Wouk

Darkness exists in everyone; some of us just keep it hidden better than others.

Harlan Coben

Hope, even in its smallest dose, is more powerful than any dark thought.

Jim Carroll

Being an artist means bearing witness to life, even the darkest parts.

Jim Carroll

The morning will come again. Because no darkness or season is eternal.

Rap Monster

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy.

Andre Dubus

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark.

Andre Dubus

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

L. J. Smith