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Quotes about Darkness

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.
- Mother Teresa
All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
- John Ortberg
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe
- John Milton
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
- John Milton
Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By
- John Milton
The wary fiend stood on the brink of hell, pondering his voyage
- John Milton
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
- John Milton
Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once
- John Milton
Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
- John Milton
O fleeting joys of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mold me man, did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me, or here place in this delicious garden? As my will concurred not to my being, it were but right and equal to reduce me to my dust, desirous to resign, and render back all I received, unable to perform thy terms too hard, by which I was to hold the good I sought not.
- John Milton
Horror and doubt distract his troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir the Hell within him; for within him Hell he brings, and round about him, nor from Hell one step, no more than from himself, can fly by change of place.
- John Milton