Best light & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.”

“It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.”

People Knows Way Kind Play Bigs Light Happens Dark Interesting Roles Huge Work Out

Author:Brittany Snow

“Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.”

Inspirational Looks Self Light Able Process Sides Dark Acceptance Buddhism Involved Self Acceptance Enamored

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.”

Firsts Hands Light Running Interest Dark Fingers Rounds Careful Corners Be Careful Signals

Book:101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

Source: 101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.”

People Ifs Knows World Light Wish Dark Chaos

Author:Brendan Fraser

“In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.”

Needs Light Dark Sea Depth Print Bubbles Riding Surf Helmet Foam

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.”

Men Way Light Dark Ghost Remarks Fright

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.”

Ifs Men May Matter Light Hours Dark Lord Men And Women Every Man Faithful Relief Dark Hours

Author:Lorenzo Snow

“You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.”

Knows Littles Helping Light Sides Dark Know How Willing Acknowledge Behave Exploring New Thought Loving You Dark Side Self-examination

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?”

Light Evil Left Dark Goodness

Author:Christian Harrison

“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others”

Moments Light Able Christ Dark Existence Share Resurrection Dark Moments

Author:Pope Francis

“My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”

Light Dark Fancy Specks Firefly Twinkling

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Light Seems Dark Dying

Author:Claude Monet

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”

Light Dark Silence Sky Dying Balance Empty Flight Hawks

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.”

Way Light Heaven Dark Healing Easier Laughter Direct Release Lifts Valleys Priceless Gems Light Up Ridges

Book:Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation

Source: Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation

“However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.”

May Enough Light Hope Sides Dark Clouds

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.”

Different Light Seems Dark Color Obvious Strikes Colour Shade Vary

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”

Light Dark Sleep White Views Land Ocean Bird Flow Stones Desert Settling Sand Destination Founders Fabric Traveler Feathers Starting Anew

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.”

Light Stars Dark Jewels Stolen Afar Beacons Fainting Light Of Love Kindling Babyhood

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey

“Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.”

Giving Ideas Light Values Dark Color Giving Up Mass

Author:William Morris Hunt

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.”

Source: I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego

“The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.”

Light Dark Miracle Arise Light And Dark

Author:Robert A. Johnson

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!”

Light Night Dark Knowing Patient Be Patient Knowing God Blackness Light Up Stormy Stormy Nights

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.”

Way Feels Light Dark Love Is Successful Yoga Clouds Combat Rescue Bhakti Yoga Dark Clouds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".”

Humans Light Values Dark Human Beings Color Eternity Relative Introduction Light And Dark Relative Value

Author:Frederick Lenz

“But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.”

Ifs Way Wells Light Desire Dark Gone Fire Woods One Way Burning Heat What If Changing Your Life Dark Woods

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light.”

God Light Dark Christianity Questioning Evangelism Evangelical

Author:V. Raymond Edman

“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”

Humans War Light Action Spirit Hate Hours Dark Secret Events Concerned Silent Wander Dawn Midnight Human Spirit Love And Hate Flowering Chronicles War Love

Book:Picnic at Hanging Rock

Source: Picnic at Hanging Rock

“The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.”

Humans Ideas Stories Light Dark Shining Corners

Author:Jill Tarter

“I have worked very hard with Nehru. I told him he should be the light of Asia, to show all those millions how they can shine out, instead of accepting the darkness of Communism.”

Should Hard Shows Light Dark Accepting Shining Lions Asia Nehru

Author:Winston Churchill

“Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.”

Light Dark Taught Areas Assuming Edges Features Evident Texture Taught Us

Author:Rex Brandt

“To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.”

“I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.”

Needs Two Light Three Dark Blue Shoes Shirts Pairs Gray Pants Formal Jeans Belts Casual Wardrobe Woven Accessories Pair Of Shoes Bracelet Blazers Light Blue

Author:Diego Della Valle

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.”

Way Giving Feels Wells Light Dark Sun Sky Shining Clouds Like Me Dark Clouds

Author:Van Morrison

“Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.”

World Years Mind Whole Light Faces Dark Clear Grace Drink Standing Accidents Whole World Sufficient

Book:Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

“Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!”

Heart Two Body Light Felt Dark Wife Sweet Kissing Ears Males Dear Warm Bones Conquer Dry Worms Erotic Sweet Kisses Dry Bones

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark.”

Light Sides Dark

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.”

People Light Eye Dark Half Millions Sun Moon Hundred Evidence Capacity Fifty Brighter Light And Dark

Book:How to Use Your Eyes

Source: How to Use Your Eyes

“Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.”

Light Happens Values Next Waiting Dark Attention Color Painting Oil Accidents Dimensions Pigment

Author:Robert Warren

“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.”

Littles Persons Light Spirit Night House Bits Dark Walks Rooms Darkness Growing Up Growing Doors Taught Little Bit Cracked

Author:Tony Dorsett

“In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.”

“SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.”

Light Spiritual Dark Our Lives Journey Warrior Memorable Terrific Voyages Light And Dark Spiritual Warrior

Author:Victor Salva

“Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.”

Ifs Giving Stills Light Night Evil Dark Lord Universal Concealed Hail Dark Night

Book:Paradis perdu: de Milton

Source: Paradis perdu: de Milton

“Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.”

Light Moving Dark Cities Saws Figures Red Rain Gold Wheels Tense Howl Sirens Gongs Dark City

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

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