1.
Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere
J. Cole
'Carry on striving lad, your fortunes can turn around in twelve months, Even when times are bleakest, hope is glimmering somewhere.'
2.
Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.
J. Cole
3.
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
Kendrick Lamar
If I declared that a blossom flourished in a dim chamber, would you accept it?
4.
When You Are In The Light, Everything
Follows You, But When You Enter Into
The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow
Doesn't Follow You.
Adolf Hitler
When You Step Into Illumination, Everything Accompanies You, But When You Enter The Obscurity, Not Even Your Own Silhouette Escorts You.
5.
There is no one ugly, deep, dark, powerful or evil enough to stop God from loving you. Nothing anyone can ever do to you can sever your connection to God. Nothing you could ever do can dam the unstoppable love of God for you. His love for you is undeniable, unrelenting and unconditional. You may ignore God, ridicule Him and reject Him but His love for you will remain constant and unchanging.
T. B. Joshua
6.
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
Tupac Shakur
7.
Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you.
Drake
Incredible how you must wait until nightfall to discern who is truly supporting you.
8.
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.
Yasmin Mogahed
9.
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
Joseph Goebbels
A media system desires seeming diversity that masks genuine sameness.
10.
It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.
Aldous Huxley
11.
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
Louis Kahn
Even a chamber that must be shrouded in darkness requires at least a glimmer of illumination to comprehend its dimness.
12.
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Amidst the ebony heavens, all blossoms seem like pyrotechnics.
13.
I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
I will present you with blossoms from the hillsides, bluebells, dark hazels, and quaint bouquets of affections. I desire to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
14.
But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels.
Yasmin Mogahed
15.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
'I am a wildwood, and an evening of gloomy foliage: yet whoever does not dread my obscurity, will find bowers blooming with roses beneath my cypresses.'
16.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
17.
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
Mikhail Tal
You must lead your adversary into a bewildering jungle in which nothing is as it appears, and the only way out is through a narrow passage that allows only one being to pass.
18.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
J. K. Rowling
We all contain both good and bad qualities. What matters is the path we decide to take. That is our true essence.
19.
I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark.
Roddy Piper
I stride so swiftly, I converse so speedily, I could switch off the lamp and be beneath the covers before the chamber is dim.
20.
I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.
Gabrielle Roth
21.
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force.
One knows how numerous this clique is,
how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions.
They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
22.
I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.
ASAP Rocky
I'm an extrovert, believe it or not. I simply possess a hidden facet of my personality, which is common to us all.
23.
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
Rick Warren
The final examination of faith is not how fervently you extol God in joyous moments but how firmly you rely on him in tough times.
24.
Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
Yasmin Mogahed
25.
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.
Bob Ross
'Contrasting brightness and darkness is what gives each one value.'
26.
We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard Cohen
'We are not insane. We are people. We seek to love, and someone must absolve us for the routes we traverse to reach it, for the roads are numerous and murky, and we are fervent and harsh in our expedition.'
27.
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.
Bell Hooks
28.
There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.
Abu Bakr
29.
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.
Malcolm Muggeridge
30.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri
Midway through my life's trek, I found myself in a dim forest where the direct path was gone.
31.
Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Recall that in a chamber of absolute obscurity, totally dark, if you ignite one diminutive flame, its radiance will be discernible from afar; its invaluable luminosity will be noticed by all.
32.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.
Rabindranath Tagore
33.
It gets really dark before it gets light.
Oliver Sykes
'The depths of night must be ventured for the morning's promise to come.'
34.
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Confucius
Discovering a needle in a haystack.
35.
Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.
John Lennox
36.
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.
Rabindranath Tagore
'Gloomy skies blossom into celestial blooms when touched by illumination.'
37.
I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.
Warsan Shire
38.
If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.
Hugh Hefner
39.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank
Glimpse how a solitary flame can both defy and delineate the shadows.
40.
Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.
David Wilkerson
41.
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
Robert Hunter
There is a course, no ordinary route, between the sunrise and the midnight gloom, and if you embark on it, none can accompany you; that journey is yours alone.
42.
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.
Yuri Gagarin
43.
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
Plato
44.
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.
Martin Heidegger
45.
Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!
J. R. R. Tolkien
'Rather than a malevolent ruler, you would have a sovereign, not sinister but breathtaking and alarming as the sunrise! Unpredictable as the ocean, and mightier than the core of the earth! Everyone will admire me and be filled with hopelessness!'
46.
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
Andrew Sean Greer
Staggering is our capacity to obscure realities from ourselves - our cognizant beings merely a slight fragment of our entire psyche, jellyfish drifting on an immense murky ocean of comprehension and judgement.
47.
I wear dark sunglasses when I want my head to look more like a limousine.
Demetri Martin
I don my shades to give me the air of a luxury vehicle.
48.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
Every instant of day and night is a wondrous occurrence.
49.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark Twain
Suppression of drinking only encourages it to be conducted clandestinely and does not resolve or even reduce the problem.
50.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
Rod Serling
'What lurks in the shadows is no more mysterious than what lies in plain sight.'