I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death but an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Man dies of cold not of darkness.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves provided that he has the courage not to deny in the darkness what he has seen in the light.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and darkness which that thing provides.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.