best quotations about
Darkness |
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Quotations
 | I see a black light. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer (his last words) 11 likes |
 | True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 8 likes |
 | The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 7 likes |
 | I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 6 likes |
 | Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 6 likes |
 | The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 5 likes |
 | I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 5 likes |
 | The darkest hour is just before the dawn. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 4 likes |
 | When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 4 likes |
 | It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 4 likes |
 | Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
| Only in the darkness can you see the stars. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 2 likes |
| One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 2 likes |
 | In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher (his last words) |
 | We come from a dark abyss; we end up in a dark abyss; the bright space in between is called Life. |
 | It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. |
 | I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. |
 | In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. |
 | Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher (about Hölderlin) |
 | At the darkest moment comes the light. |
 | Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! |
 | We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
| All colours will agree in the dark. |
 | We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. |
 | You need the dark in order to show the light. |
 | A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. |
| Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light. |
Latin Quotes
 | Life is one long struggle in the dark. Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 61 likes |
 | Light after the dark. Post tenebras lux. — Medieval Sundial Motto (from the Vulgate, Job 17:12.) 13 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 7 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Weather forecast for tonight: dark. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 8 likes |
 | What is the speed of dark? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
| They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Hunger coexists with darkness. Σκότω λιμός ξύνοικος. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. 3 likes |
