Darkness Quotes - Page 12

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.

No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.