Darkness Quotes

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

See you in the darkness.

As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

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.'

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

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.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?