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99 Deep Dark Quotes on Life, Love and Death
Life can be really challenging and overwhelming at times. It’s not always sunshine and rainbows, and at times, there are benefits to experiencing the darker side of life.
Case in point: You may feel a sense of motivation to push past these troubles. Execute Resources, for instance, has chosen a dark theme as we seek to motivate individuals to push out of their comfort zones.
Now might be the best time to learn more about yourself to overcome these troubling situations. After all, you might just come out much stronger on the other side.
1. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
3. Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank
4. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
5. Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman
6. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
7. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi
8. I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda
10. All those struggles you’ve been through, those times when everything seemed hopeless, when you didnt know how to continue on. They made you stronger, wiser, and better.
Jon Gordon
11. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
12. Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
Christopher Pike
13. Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Brené Brown
14. There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
Bram Stoker
15. The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.
Angelica Hopes
16. In the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
17. Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.
Steve Maraboli
18. Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
19. Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson
20. When the darkness of death closes in, then you’ll see the light.
P.w. Imel
21. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
22. Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
R. Scott Bakker
23. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon
24. Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault
25. Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light.
Ken Poirot
26. Only in the darkness you can see the stars.
Martin Luther King Jr.
27. You can’t state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
Zadie Smith
28. Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Junichiro Tanizaki
29. It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
Stephen King
30. A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
31. To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.
Nalini Singh
32. It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.
Richard Evans
33. Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.
Ankita Singhal
34. There’s a bright spot in every dark cloud.
Bruce Beresford
35. Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.
Morgan Rhodes
36. But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
Rick Yancey
37. There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
Deborah Norville
38. There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.
auren Oliver
39. 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
40. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung
41. I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.
Marie Lu
42. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
43. The sky was so thick with stars it was as if he could reach out and brush them with his hand.
Justin Cronin
44. We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on that’s who we really are.
Sirius Black
45. You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain.
Sándor Márai
46. All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin
47. The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.
Brian A. McBride
48. Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
49. Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.
Margaret Stohl
50. People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
51. Sometimes my own darkness scares me.
Heena Rathore P.
52. No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
George Chakiris
53. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
54. 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
55. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
56. I preach darkness. I don’t inspire hope—only shadows. It’s up to you to find the light in my words.
Charles Lee
57. I said to my soul, be still, and wait…So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S. Eliot
58. The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
Edgar Allan Poe
59. When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
Sarah J. Maas
60. Those who fear the darkness have no idea what the light can do.
Katasai Rakshasa
61. But they can’t know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can’t get out of the dark hole. ‘Peace is here’ it whispers.
Lurlene McDaniel
62. I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Persia
63. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
64. The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.
Silvertris
65. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.
Marie Lu
66. As long as we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. As long as we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.
Marianne Williamson
67. A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
68. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
69. Focus on the cloud of positivity and you can ignore the dark and gloomy nature of mankind.
Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma
70. The best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people is knowing your own darkness.
Carl Jung
71. Life isn’t just about darkness or light, rather it’s about finding light within the darkness.
Landon Parham
72. The darkness around us might somewhat light up if we would first practice using the light we have in the place we are.
Henry S. Haskins
73. 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
74. Character like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Yousuf Karsh
75. Don’t underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it.
Klaus Mikaelson
76. All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
Shannon L. Alder
77. I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it’s all chaos. I call it ‘the dark fear.’ At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
St. Vincent
78. Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King Jr.
79. You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
Shaun Hick
80. Darkness craves to meet the light and is eager to see wonderful world.
Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma
81. Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
Javier Bardem
82. There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.
Rod Serling
83. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
84. The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.
Alexandra Sirowy
85. When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light – whatever that is for you – no matter how far away it seems.
Jan Berry
86. I need to figure out a way to lift the darkness and break whatever’s binding these people to that planet.
Jerry Siegel
87. The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways. Some people have dark qualities that are especially pronounced. You cannot change such people at their core, but must merely avoid becoming their victim. You are an observer of the human comedy, and by being as tolerant as possible, you gain a much greater ability to understand people and to influence their behavior when necessary.
Robert Greene
88. I’m about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
89. Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz
90. Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.
N. Goenka
91. The sin is not in darkness. The sin is in not respecting both the light and the dark as their role in our (and others’) personal evolution. The sin is in judgment, in pride and in separation.
Amy Larson
92. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
93. Since that is the only Voice Jesus listened to, he was a light into a world where darkness seems to exist.
Gene Skaggs Jr
94. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath
95. What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
Henry Ford
96. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan
97. The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
98. Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus
99. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
