Darkness Quotes

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines"

"The prince of darkness is a gentleman"

"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)"

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

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

"May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy"

"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."

"The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence."

"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."

"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness"

"He whom love touches not walks in darkness"

"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye"

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace"

"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."

"Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness."

"O Queen of air and darkness,I think 'tis truth you say,And I shall die to-morrow;But you will die to-day."