#darkness

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#misattributed #darkness

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ↗

— Anne Frank

#darkness #illumination #dark

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#resistance

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#creative #darkness #decide #destructive #every

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#safety #safety

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. ↗

— Rumi

#blessings

I am lost in my world, invisible - unknown. Moon please lend me your light that someone will me see me. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#darkness #invisible #lonely #lost #poetry

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#paranormal #tattoos #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”) ↗

— George Sterling

#armageddon #darkness #death #death