Darkness

Famous quotes containing the word darkness:

“Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wander helplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man’s lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities—a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Ephesians, 6:12.

St. Paul’s words were used by William Blake as an epigraph to The Four Zoas (c. 1800)

“Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the ploughman in darkness plough?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)