Dark Quotes: 35 Inspiring Words to Help You Through Dark Moments

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - We all know the feeling when night falls and shadows grow longer. Our minds wander to places we avoid during daylight hours. Fear creeps in without warning, and suddenly every sound feels louder, every corner looks darker. Dark quotes capture these moments perfectly.

Darkness lives inside us too, not just in the world around us. We carry memories we wish to forget, thoughts we never speak aloud, and feelings we hide from others. Dark quotes help us face these hidden parts without feeling so alone.

In this article, we have gathered some of the most powerful dark quotes. Read on to find words about darkness, fear, and the light we search for when times get hard.

1. "The nearer the dawn the darker the night." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. "Character like a photograph, develops in darkness." — Yousuf Karsh

3. "We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." — J. K. Rowling

4. "Flowers grow out of dark moments." — Corita Kent

5. "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." — Francis of Assisi

6. "When you have nothing left to lose, it's easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I'm there." — Lori Lesko

7. "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." — Desiderius Erasmus

8. "If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms." — William Shakespeare

9. "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." — Og Mandino

10. "The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence." — Rabindranath Tagore

11. "Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light." — Rumi

12. "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler." — Friedrich Nietzsche

13. "The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows." — Brené Brown

14. "Education is the movement from darkness to light." — Allan Bloom

15. "By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness." — Pablo Neruda

16. "Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice." — Maya Angelou

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

18. "Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees." — Marcel Proust

19. "Don't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it." — Klaus Mikaelson

20. "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." — Dante Alighieri

21. "To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith." — Charles Spurgeon

22. "Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life." — Stefan Zweig

23. "Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing." — August Wilson

24. "The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." — Agnes de Mille

25. "In the midst of darkness, light persists." — Mahatma Gandhi

26. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." — Edgar Allan Poe

27. "A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight and see the dawn before the rest of the world." — Oscar Wilde

28. "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." — Mark Twain

29. "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." — Plato

30. "Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding." — Tom Hardy as Bane, 'The Dark Knight Rises'

31. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman

32. "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." — Bram Stoker

33. "Only in the darkness can you see the stars." — Martin Luther King Jr.

34. "The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need." — Jenim Dibie

35. "I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death." — Manuel Alvarez Bravo

May these dark quotes remind us that darkness is a part of life, just as light is, because they teach us to embrace both the shadows and the sunshine.