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Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Can the darkness condemn the light?

Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show: For Christmas bringeth Jesus, Brought for us so low

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Darkness is so predictable.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone when he didn't let you kno him? What a waste. The beauty he murdered in this place. He could never see what he had, only what he failed to achieve.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you believe there's a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you're depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don't want to feel bad anymore. The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure.

December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight. More and more he stares into the night, Becoming less and less concerned with ends, Emblem of the innocent as sage Restored to wonder by what he must yield.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.