The darkness surrounding can envelop one,but if you light only one match, you have defeated it all.

We are going to your father,” Mrs. Which said. “But where is he?” Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a...

The light within us can always identify our mind’s darkness

Theres something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re close, like you could reach out...

When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes,the heart of the people is always right.

…you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can’t have a black one..

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one...

Quoting from Thomas MertonDialogues With SilenceThe true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows...

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

All dark and comfortless.

If love were human I would’ve set them on fire by now — a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I’d breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love’s destruction, its mortality filling...

The darkness is no place to be in times like this.

When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.

There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.

for the nightHath been to me a more familiar faceThan that of man, and in her starry shadeOf dim and solitary lovelinessI learned the language of another world.

Carry the fire.

Why not dare yourself to become a shinning positive light where darkness is the only thing known?

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the...

I do not worry about the beauty of the world, neither do I care, but it is all dark and dirty when you are not around.

Darkness became her world…

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting...

Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart...

To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye

Darkness is happening,” said the leather woman, very quietly. “Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for...

You’re the light in my darkness

You must often visit the darkness to get the people lost in the darkness out of there!

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn’t turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.

The fire of hatred that was burning in them was cooled; and darkness gave place to the dawn of wisdom. The sky showered raindrops to soften the earth and lay down dust. How can the...

Things may need to stay in the darkness for some time. There is power in darkness: the power of gestation, deep dreaming, and the sweetness of night. However, sometimes darkness obscures our vision, making it...

“Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

I am not forsaken! I’m no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge…the blindingly beautiful edge.

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.

The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.

I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Light has no value if there is no darkness.

When I visited George Bernard Shaw, in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about Ingersoll. During the course...