Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante AlighieriAll the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Francis of AssisiOnly in the darkness can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark TwainTruly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister EckhartTo penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas JeffersonKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungGive light and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius ErasmusThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauIn the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.
W. Somerset MaughamAs far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl JungIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis BaconAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinSo the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. EliotEverywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness, on the confines of the two everlasting empires necessity and free will.
Thomas CarlyleI sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. RowlingIt is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor RooseveltEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism, or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Seek Love in the pity of others' woe, In the gentle relief of another's care, In the darkness of night and the winter's snow, In the naked and outcast seek Love there!
William BlakeFor the moon, though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, can not.
ChanakyaDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan PoeBlemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven, darkness makes any woman fair.
OvidWe shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
H. P. LovecraftWhen the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de TocquevilleThere is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
Mother TeresaCriticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean NathanBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da VinciTrue friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauWhen you have come to the edge of all the light you have, And step into the darkness of the unknown, Believe that one of the two will happen to you, Either you'll find something solid to stand on, Or you'll be taught how to fly!
Richard BachThere is no darkness, but ignorance.
William ShakespeareI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareStrange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
HoraceWalk while ye have the light lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinNature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow, in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels they rise they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
William BlakeThe 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 lament operate against the Divine Will?
Sai BabaDespotism can only exist in darkness and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere as it has heretofore done almost everywhere.
James MadisonWords which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa