#darkness

"All I know is a door into the dark"

"But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness."

"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."

"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun."

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

"Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness; but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always."

"Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

"Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same."

"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."

"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly."

"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen."

"The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

"The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God."

"My reality is it’s nighttime. The truth is I’m just blindfolded. How many people live like me, in self-deluded darkness?"

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."

"When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost."

"If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more."

"Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."