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Darkness Quotes
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
130
"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."
76
"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."
66
"Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch."
63
"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
61
"Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write with invisible ink?"
61
"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
58
"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."
56
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
55
"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."
54
"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."
54
"For we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to."
53
"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."
50
"It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!"
50
"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
49
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
48
"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."
43
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
42
"But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been."
41
"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."
41
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
40
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
39
"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
39
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
38
"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."
38
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
37
"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."
36
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