The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

In the total darkness poetry is still there and it is there for you.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness war and peace rise and fall only that person has truly experienced life.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature moulding men.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.

For me singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light out of the darkness.