Dark Quotes For When Things Are Hard.
They say the night is darkest before the dawn because hard times and darkness don’t last forever. They’ve never lasted forever for anyone, they won’t start lasting forever in your case or situation, that is why you should know that no matter what dark times you are in right now, they would surely pass like they did in the past. We have compiled some of the best quotes about darkness to show you there’s always light in the dark and you shouldn’t give up on life because the best is yet to come.
Having to go though dark times while everyone else seems to be having a gorgeous time can be saddening but when you read about other people’s lives, especially lives of great people who went through the dark times you are probably going through you start to realize, it will eventually pass and you would find your light in the darkness and shine. These great people who went through dark times did eventually write their experience as quotes about darkness and being in the dark. These dark quotes would help strengthen your heart and mind and make you realize being in the dark is just for a short time. Everyone needs these darkness quotes for when they are going through dark times.
Quotes About Darkness
- Only in darkness can you see the stars. –Martin Luther King Jr.
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. – Martin Luther King, Jr
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr.
- There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars. – Carrie Hope Fletcher
- I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. – Sylvia Plath
- Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable! – Yvonne Pierre
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. – Nelson Mandela
- Never give in. Never, never, never. – Winston Churchill
- There is no education like adversity. – Benjamin Disraeli
- Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller
- Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert Schuller
- It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius
- The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. – Epictetus
- Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness. – Pablo Neruda
- If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms. – William Shakespeare
- The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman! – William Shakespeare
- If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. – Isabella Rossellini.
- Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. – Dean Koontz.
- Don’t fight darkness—bring the light, and darkness will disappear. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Yet from those flames, No light, but rather darkness visible. – John Milton.
- In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca
- When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. — Thomas Edison
- It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed. – Doe Zantamata
- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert Kennedy
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. – Khalil Gibran
- You start with a darkness to move through, but sometimes the darkness moves through you. – Dean Young
- We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Barbara De Angelis
- Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. – Barbara Johnson.
- He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson
- Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. – L.M. Montgomery
- You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun. – Shaun Hick
- In these dark and uncertain times, there can be great value in imagining a bit of star in each human soul. –Michael Meade
- We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
- You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events. – Joel Osteen
- No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you’ll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.- Joel Osteen.
- The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb
- Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz
- Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom.
- And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. – Haruki Murakami
- A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. – Haruki Murakami.
- What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. – Haruki Murakami.
- All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney
- Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. – Walt Whitman.
- It’s in the darkest nights you see the stars the most. – Frederik
- In life, we have to be strong and bright enough to face our dark times. – Munia Khan
- Do not lose faith in dark times. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- This time may be dark, but all regrowth starts in the darkness of a seed. – Daris LaPointe
- Stars are born out of dark moments. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The night taught me never to fear the dark times, by giving way to the dawn of a new day. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars. – Sumangali Morhall
- There will dawn a day when these hostile hours, these days of hatred and violence, seem the faintest of memories, but dark and steep and long is the road up out of hell. So do not tire, do not despair, do not abandon your brethren, and do not forget that through this darkness we and we alone carry the light of freedom. –Pierce Brown
- By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness! – Tara Brach.
- I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. – Anonymous
- I walk in the darkness so that others may see the light. – Anonymous
- Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it. – Amit Ray
- I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can. – Erin Morgenstern
- People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. – C.J. Roberts
- I wonder if that’s how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don’t want it to win. – Jasmine Warga.
- No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. – Terry Pratchett
- After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light. – Marie Lu
- The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen. – Shannon L. Alder
- There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. – Deborah Norville.
- When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. – Sarah J. Maas
- I wonder if that’s how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don’t want it to win. – Jasmine Warga
- Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. – Anne Frank
- There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. – Bram Stoker
- Don’t give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you’ll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming. – Germany Kent
- Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher
- For every single dark night there is a brighter day. – Tupac Shakur.
- Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning. – Angeline Trevena
- Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness. – Reinhard Bonnke.
- It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. – Stephen King.
- I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. – Aldοus Huxley
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
- Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. –Susan Gale
- At the darkest moment comes the light. – Joseph Campbell.
- My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness! – Helen Keller.
- 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. – Helen Keller.
- The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. – Seneca
- Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you’re doing the impossible. – Francis of Assisi
- All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. – Francis of Assisi.
- Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength. – Chris Bradford
- Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. – Mary Oliver.
- Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. – Albert Schweitzer
- Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino
- I’m afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights. – Lara Flynn.
- Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. – Dorothy Thompson.
- Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light. – Rumi
- What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest. – Rumi.
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle Onassis.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
- He whom love touches not walks in darkness! – Plato.
- You can’t discover light, by analyzing the dark. – Wayne Dyer
- Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. – Desiderius Erasmus
- What makes night within us may leave stars. – Victor Hugo
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. – Carl Jung.
- Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. – Carl Jung.
- Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness! – Carl Jung.
- Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung.
- Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness. – Julia Cameron
- Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo
- All darkness vanished, when I saw the lamp within my heart. – Kabir
- I think we all have light and dark inside us. – Sean Penn
- Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. – Anne Frank.
- My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I’m fighting towards the light. – Bebe Rexha.
- I’m drawn between the light and dark. – David Bowie
- The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
- You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius
- Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark. – Sam Francis.
- Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
- Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life is too short to think small. – Tim Ferriss
- A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington
- He who doesn’t want to face his challenges shall always face challenges! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. – Ray Davis
- He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – Louisa May Alcott
- There is a dark side of me – it’s the side people don’t really get to see. I think everyone has that. – Bishop Briggs.
- Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prevert
- Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. – John Wooden
- Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill
- Will you love me? Even with my dark side?- Kelly Clarkson, ‘Dark Side’.
- As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
- Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds. – Ana Claudia Antunes
- Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. – Martha Graham
- Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
- The night is darkest just before dawn! – Harvey Dent
- Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. – John Ruskin.
- One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In complete darkness, we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you. – Janet Jackson.
- Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark. – Jessica Capshaw.
- Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. – Hugh B. Brown.
- Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. – Martin Heidegger.
- Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. – Stefan Zweig.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong.
- The darkness declares the glory of light. – T. S. Eliot.
- Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. – Christopher Pike.
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. – Helen Keller.
- It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. – John Steinbeck.
- I think we all have light and dark inside us. – Sean Penn.
- Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. – Rabindranath Tagore.
- We’ve all got darkness inside us. And I’ve got quite a lot of darkness. – Antony Sher.
- Creation does not cease just because there is darkness! – Suman Pokhrel.
- In anything, there has to be dark and light. There’s a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness. – Gloria Vanderbilt.
- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. – Leonardo da Vinci.
- For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. – Reba McEntire.
- Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.- Roy T. Bennett.
- We come from a dark abyss; we end up in a dark abyss; the bright space in between is called Life. – Nikos Kazantzakis.
- Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing – even if it’s just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear. – Marianne Williamson.
- It’s always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway. – Alan Thicke.
- It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. – Marianne Williamson.
- Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. – Ali Ibn Abi Talib.
- It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – William L. Watkinson.
- All darkness vanished, when I saw the lamp within my heart. – Kabir
- Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. – Desiderius Erasmus.
- Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. – P.C. Cast.
- When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through. – Drake.
- I don’t wanna be alone. In the darkness anymore. – Eminem
- The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. – The Bible, John 1:5
- Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain.
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. – Francis Bacon.
- 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.
- I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. – J. K. Rowling.
- You want it darker, We kill the flame! – Leonard Cohen.
- On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness. – Enheduanna.
- Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. – Edgar Allan Poe.
- I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice. – Dante.
- There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. – Bram Stoker.
- To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. – John Locke.
Getting over dark times is perfectly doable, and you should know that and set your goals towards that. These quotes about darkness and dark times accurately convey the message other famous people have regarding the topic of being in the dark. The light and dark quotes would certainly not solve your problems for you, they would make you realize how solvable they are and why you shouldn’t for a second think it is impossible. So you have to prepare yourself for when you walk into your light and also don’t forget to share these awesome in the darkness quotes with your friends and family who are going through a lot.
