Close your bodily eye that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness that its effect may work back from without to within.

Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life which make it pungent intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict in the zone where black and white clash.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Clouds and darkness surround us yet Heaven is just and the day of triumph will surely come when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Strange is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

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.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

In the total darkness poetry is still there and it is there for you.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness war and peace rise and fall only that person has truly experienced life.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature moulding men.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.

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.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

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.

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