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Quotes about Darkness

The night is dark, and I am far from home.
— John Henry Newman
The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
— JM Coetzee
In winter darkness, the Baghdad Arabian keen blue deepness of the piercing lovely January winter's dusk--it used to tear my heart out, one stabbing soft star was in the middle of the magicalest blue, throbbing like love--I saw Maggie's black hair in this night-- In the shelves of Orion her eye shades, borrowed, gleamed a dark and proud vellum somber power brooding rich bracelets of the moon rose from our snow, and surrounded the mystery.
— Jack Kerouac
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
— CS Lewis
Then pray. Because when women pray, God bring reconciliation into the darkness of this world.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
— Ted Dekker
The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.
— Ted Dekker
There's a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It's important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.
— Ted Dekker
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
— John Calvin
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
— John of the Cross
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
— Khalil Gibran