Darkest Quotes

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

This agreement will serve as both a tribute to a true American hero who led our nation through its darkest days and as a reminder that disability is not a barrier to achievement.

As we wrote today, it's always darkest before dawn. I think most of the selling is probably overdone.