Darkness Quotes - Page 38

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

With Christ, darkness cannot succeed. Darkness will not gain victory over the light of Christ.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.

All beauty contains darkness.

You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan—or man to create both.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs

Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?