Darkness

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

"But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

"Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."

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

"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

"The darkest night is ignorance."

"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right."