Darkness Within Quotes

“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.”
― Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

“In a world full of war and hate
Her body is my temple and she is my religion
Scared yet spirited - as she laid bare
The demons she had slayed and spared
I can't help but fall into the depths of her

- The Depths of Her -”
― Mystqx Skye, Bared: Beneath a Myriad of Skies

“The greatest enemy we can face is ourselves, and the greatest battle is against the darkness within.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

“The true dwellers help you embrace
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
― Harshita Gottipati, Born A Free Spirit

“The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“In each thrust, I pray... that I may be able to fill that longing she has in her soul. Giving her body if even only a few seconds of respite - as she forgets the void from embracing everything in my beastly world...”
― Mystqx

“Helplessly
I am consumed
Into the darkness of your soul
Wanton eyes lured me
Dangerously to your abyss
Where I needed to lose myself
Just to find your world
Helplessly
I am consumed
- Into the Darkness -”
― Mystqx, Bared: Beneath a Myriad of Skies

“Darkness within clouds the world without.”
― Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World

“It wasn't the darkness that killed people. It was the people who carried the darkness within them that did.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“There was something about her playing ... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.” He frowned. “But it’s quite common, isn’t it? What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. Marriages mangled. Wives left for dead. Children growing up as deformed prisoners of war—all of them walking around with holes where their hearts should be, wondering where they belong, what side they’re fighting for. Extreme wealth, like the kind Cordova married into, only magnifies the size and scope of the fallout.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“The monster never left me, Lunora.

It was dreaming...”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora: A Book of Sand

“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“We all have darkness inside, even Liam. It’s what we do to keep it in check that matters.”
― Laelia Starla, Winter's Maiden 1

“We are our own light and our own darkness.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“The darkness of man radiates from a
tortured mind. - Chris Cooper”
― Linda Greyman, Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection

“Olhe para o abismo dentro de você, Mazama. Às vezes a luz demais nos ofusca, não é? Paramos de enxergar nossas nuances. Toque na essência bruta de quem você é e poderá enxergar a verdade. Jogue escuridão sobre os seus pensamentos para ver como seus instintos reagem.”
― Daniel Gruber, A Floresta

“A escuridão do vazio é mil vezes mais fácil do que a escuridão do coração!”
― Ibrahim al-Koni, الورم

“You don’t understand the depths of my desires, the darkness that dwells within. I’m protecting you from a world you could never comprehend.”
― Neda Aria, Bella Donna

“But Kelsea could not even remember what reason she had cobbled together for mutilating Thorne. She remembered doing the deed, remembered black wings opening inside her, a darkness so inviting that a newly crowned Kelsea Glynn, one who seemed years younger in hindsight, had longed to lose herself inside it. But only madness waited there, the same madness that Finn and his ilk had always wanted to inflict on the Tearling...greed and callousness, lack of empathy, a narrowing of mind until only one lonely voice was left, surrounded by a void into which it could howl only a single word: Me.”
― Erika Johansen, The Fate of the Tearling

“The shadows help you navigate uncertainty by becoming adaptable and unafraid of the unknown.”
― Dark Night Beacon

“There's a hole in my heart that never sees the sun shine through. It's my little piece of darkness.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“It had always been there, at his back perhaps, all these years, but he had never turned to face it. Now it stood before him, staring, nevermore to be escaped, and its mouth was enlarged without any limit. It was ready to swallow him up.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin (4-Oct-2001) Paperback