Dark times come to all of us whether we are rich or poor, healthy or sick, and old or young. The fact is no one can measure another’s problem unless they face it themselves. What is important is that despite the tribulation we may face in our lives there should always be a reason from within why we should stay positive and look towards better times. There are times in life that it’s not always easy to remain positive and keep a happy smile on our face especially in these tough economic times. Don’t take life too seriously. If there are circumstances that are out of our control, then learn to let go and be more optimistic in life, things will start to improve over time. Darkness quotes will inspire you to pull through the dark times, and they will help you realize that the dark times do not last.
35 Darkness Quotes
- “A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” Fred Allen
- “A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde
- “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” Yousuf Karsh
- “Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.” Gustave Flaubert
- “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain
- “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” Erica Jong
- “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore
- “Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.” Dan Millman
- “Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.” Mary Renault
- “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Desmond Tutu
- “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Stanley Kubrick
- “I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.” Barbara Brown Taylor
- “I know a thing or two about pain and darkness.” Twenty One Pilots
- “I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer
- “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” R.R. Tolkien
- “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it.” Terry Pratchett
- “Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.” Johnny Weir
- “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” George Chakiris
- “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver
- “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” William Shakespeare
- “Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.” Georges Bernanos
- “The dark and the light, they exist side by side. Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other. The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened…” Raven Davies
- “The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.” Ulysses S. Grant
- “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.” Osho
- “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost
- “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” Bram Stoker
- “There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.” Rod Serling
- “Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn its back on you.” Jennifer Donnelly
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein
- “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato
- “We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, ‘Evil, be thou my good’, so they say, ‘Darkness, bo thou my light.’” Horace Mann
- “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
- “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” Rumi
