But then the light of reason has rarely been of any real use to people who live in darkness.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary… She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind – or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformideable, even pitiable, in its units

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father’s house

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Life is short, and we have but little time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the dark way with us. Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing ‘The Jedi Doth Return.’ After having done so many things with characters who don’t speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader’s transformation from the dark side back to the good.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark and peopled it with spirits.

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stiffness, and the cold, and dark.

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve – Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end

I am not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.

It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.

It’s better to light a candle than to curse the dark
In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

There is a theory that bravery and intrepidness and extreme risk taking are all sorts of madness, and that only one person in 1,000 or 100,000 is born without the normal safety rail of self-preservation, the pressing need to turn around and go home when it’s dark, cold and frightening.

What is your theologian’s ecstasy but Mahomet’s houri in the dark?

Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.

Do I wish to see this in the dark, or do I wish to see this in the light?

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us… It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

A great leap in the dark

What is this,” said the leopard,”that is so ‘sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?

The Russian soul is a dark place.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I’m actually not like that at all.

I would like to break out of this “dark, brooding” image, cause I’m actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says “He’s dark and brooding” I think: “He’s about to lay an egg”

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see I’ll be the light to guide you

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

There’s a dark side to everything.

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Still falls the rain – dark as the world of man, black as our loss – blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.”

Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

If this political business teaches you one thing, it is that you can be as wise as the wise men of this world, and yet you always wander into the next minute like a child into the dark.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

I’m drawn between the light and dark.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it’s just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

I’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it’s dark around you

Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch; Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another’s personality, marking vulnerable points

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

The light is coming to give back everything the darkness stole

An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‘even’ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.