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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Julia Cameron

The light that puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm not somebody who believes that darkness is something that should necessarily be hidden from children or anything like that.

Crispin Glover

Many people don't know people were tortured. Many people don't know about the darkness in Burma.

Bo Kyi

Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.

Frank Gorshin

Belgrade is now in darkness for as far as the eye can see.

Brent Sadler

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Alexander Volkov

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

Iyanla Vanzant

Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

Harrison Ford

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

Saint Francis of Assisi

When darkness fell on our country.

Jerry Abramson

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960.

National Gallery

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.

J.r.r. Tolkien

And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William H. Gass

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafiz Of Persia

They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I'm drowning.

Anne Rice

Darkness and light, it's all about the balance.

Shaun Cassidy

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Mangnu Hirschfield

Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

Jan Berry

He whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Plato

You've got to kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Bruce Cockburn

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

We've come a long way, but it's like nibbling at the edge of darkness.

Benjamin L. Hooks

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Richard Le Gallienne

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Bible

I like comedy that comes from a dark place. There is a certain darkness, a lyrical darkness, in the Welsh character and that is very good for creating art.

Rob Brydon