"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light."
— Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread)

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk."
— L.J. Smith (Daughters of Darkness)

"This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing."
— Kingdom Hearts

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

"There is darkness in every heart."
— Kingdom Hearts

"'Okay. I'll Help you fight. What do you think we're up against? Bears, Coyotes...'
'My Brother'"
— L.J Smith

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
— Stephen King

"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
— Franz Kafka

"In the depth a light will grow,
A silver shine no shadows know,
Like wings unfolding in the sky,
That circle 'round a gleaming eye,
Turning darkness all away,
Even depths will know their day,
For every shadow has its end,
In light!
Life will return again!"
— Robert Fanney

""...Darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."

~Nyx"
— P.C. Cast (Marked)

"If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace."
— Luke 1:78-79

"...Darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
— P.C. Cast (Marked)

"If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death."
— Pythagoras

"Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden"
— R.A. Salvatore (Homeland)

"It's twilight. It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way… the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Never Give Up For Hoping..Coz We Live as We Dream ^^"
— Joseph Conrad (Youth; Heart of Darkness; The End of the Tether)

"Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it."
— Christopher Pike (The Last Vampire)

"Darkness promotes speech."
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

""Better to light a candle than to curse the dark" "
— chinese proverb

"“What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?” "
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
"
— David Weatherford

"Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action."
— Geraldine McCaughrean

""And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.""
— Douglas Coupland

""Inheritor of a Dying World, we call thee to the Living Beauty. Wanderer in the Wild Darkness, we call thee to the Gentle Light. Long hast thou dwelt in Darkness---Quit the Night and seek the Day.""
— Neophyte Ritual of the Golden Dawn

"We seduce the dark with pain and rapture."
— Nightwish

"I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness."
— Ryan Adams (Infinity Blues)

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)

""Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.""
— Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread)

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."
— Patrick Overton

"While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality."
— Lionel Johnson

"Sometimes When we lose hope there isnt time to get it back so we sit in our sorrow but never would get out as if lock up in a dark room or corner, closing eyes wont help, ask for a piece of hope and hold it close you will soon get light in your darkness and silence, oh that pitiful place in your mind is sorrow"
— Lexi Luna (Lost Hope)

"We are the star and the darkness it peirces"
— Clive Barker Galilee

"And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage and the silver bicycle were already painted out by the darkness; most of the commuters too were already in place in their filing-drawer houses. A half-forsaken chasm of time .... "
— Abe Kōbō (The Ruined Map: A Novel)

"There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either-or proposition. We' re talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness. Stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!"
— (Northern Exposure)

""And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.""
— Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer)

"If Derrida is right, all that the poets have ever done is whistle in the dark."
— Charles Simic (The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs)