True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

If you have an issue with homosexuality then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness the Dreamless Sleep?

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness ignorance and fear it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light and the last great Messenger born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light not our Darkness that most frightens us.

Now God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness comfort in despair.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death but an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Man dies of cold not of darkness.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves provided that he has the courage not to deny in the darkness what he has seen in the light.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and darkness which that thing provides.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger or I'd have to accept that it happened.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor the challenge of tapping into that reaching down into that sadness or anger is very therapeutic.