Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all to us.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight, it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... 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.

Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.

The 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.

In 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.

As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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