No matter how fast the light travels
it finds the dark has always got there first
and is waiting for it.
-Terry Pratchett

The ground of the soul is dark.
-Meister Eckhart

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound,
i.e., the interval.
-Marshall McLuhan

But this darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily is gathers them!
-Rainer Maria Rilke

But I know what darkness is,
it accumulates, thickens,
then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
-Samuel Beckett

The darkness has its own light.
-Theodore Roethke

Everything is made of light
even the dark night.
-Charles Simic

Night is a world lit by itself.
-Antonio Porchia

Sometimes, at night,
I turn on the light to not see my own darkness.
-Antonio Porchia

Night carries in it
the burden of the Light that has to be.
-Aurobindo Ghose

What is beyond the darkness?
Some say chaos and darker night.
I say sunrise.
-Talbot Mundy

What I take from my nights
I add to my days.
-Leon de Rotrou

I knew nothing but shadows

and thought them to be real.

-Oscar Wilde

The hunter of shadows,
himself a shade.
-Homer

The shadows:
some hide, others reveal.
-Antonio Porchia

Shadow owes its birth to light.
-John Gay

If not for the light,
there would be no shadow.
-Yiddish Saying

The light needs darkness to shine.
-Carl Jung

The light can only shine in the darkness.

The darkness can only be seen in the light.

One is the possibility of the other.

-Sang H. Kim

Unless there is a light,
how can there be a shadow?
And unless there is a shadow,
how can we know the light?
-Deng Ming-Dao

A light here required a shadow there.
-Virginia Woolf

Where the light is brightest, 

the shadows are deepest.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is happening is that the Shadows
are responding to the attention you pay them.
-Philip Pullman

A light without shadow
generates an emotion without reserve.
-Roland Barthes

There are dark shadows on the earth,
but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
-Charles Dickens

There is no shadow where all is light.
-William Douglas Horden

At noon-time the shadow of a person is not seen separately
but it remains at the bottom of his feet.
-Jnanadeva

The gloom of the world is but a shadow.
Behind it, yet within our reach is joy.
There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see -
and to see we have only to look.
-Fra Giovanni Giocondo

Can darkness dispel Darkness?
light illumine Light?
-Dorothy Walters

There is no darkness
but ignorance.
-William Shakespeare

There is no such thing as darkness;
only a failure to see.
-Malcolm Muggeridge

Our sense by its capacity has invented darkness.
In truth there is nothing but Light,
only it is a power of light neither above or below
our poor human vision's limited range.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The light is your conscious psyche,
all that you have already made known.
The dark is your unconscious psyche,
all that is still unknown, unexpressed, or denied.
-Jacquelyn Small

Wisdom is a torch in the darkness.

It lightens the mind so we can see clearly

both the content and process of our becoming.

-Sang H. Kim

Reason explains the darkness,
but it is not a light.
-Noah benShea

Forgetfulness is the darkness,
mindfulness is the light.
-Thich Nhat Hahn

If we lack self-control
or if we do not know ourselves well,
we can darken our own light.
-Deng Ming-Dao

You can't study the darkness
by flooding it with light.
-Edward Abbey

Wanting a better look

At the dark

I turned on a light

-John Sandbach

The light shines in the darkness
and the darkness does not understand it,
and cannot extinguish it.
-Madeline L'Engle

Light can penetrate dark,
but dark can't penetrate light.
-Lee Carroll, "Kryon"

The dark has to be contained in the light
or the light will be contained in the dark.
-Nancy Hale

Light trumps darkness, every time.
You stick a candle into the dark,
but you can't stick the dark into the light.
-Jodi Picoult

Darkness cannot stay when it comes in contact with light.
Then what is there for light to extinguish?
-Jnanadeva

If we want light
we must conquer darkness.
-James Thomas Fields

There is nothing in the dark
that isn't there when the lights are on.
-Quentin Crisp

You must go into the dark
in order to bring forth your light.
-Debbie Ford

To go into the dark with a light is to 

know the light.

To know the dark, go dark.

Go without sight, and find that the dark, too

blooms and sings,

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

-Wendell Berry

If you carry your own lantern,
you will survive the dark.
-Hasadic Saying

We all walk in the dark
and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
-Earl Nightingale

The darkness around us might somewhat light up
if we would first practice using the light we have on the place we are.
-Henry S. Haskins

Don't be afraid of the dark.

Shine!

-Vera Nazarian

If you are light,
there is no dark world.
-Vernon Howard

There is literally no absence of light anywhere;

darkness is just light; out of phase.

-J. Sig Paulson

Your task as you face the world of darkness
is to stand tall in your true identity as a light bearer.
-Jacquelyn Small

One may not reach the dawn
save by the path of the night.
-Kahlil Gibran

The endurance of darkness
is preparation for great light.
-St. John of the Cross

From dark night
comes dawn light
-The Oculatum

There is no contest between light and darkness.
-Hugh Prather

Adding light to darkness
solves the problem of darkness.

-Hugh Prather

When the light reigns supremely,
darkness cannot enter.
-Christian Larson

All darkness must finally disappear
from a place that is constantly being filled
with more and more light.
-Christian Larson

We may be groping in the dark for ages,
thinking we cannot exist another moment
until we receive light,
and yet so long as we continue to grope in the darkness,
never thinking of how we might produce the light,
we shall continue in the blackness of the darkness without change.
But the very moment we go to the source of light,
and give our attention to that source,
we produce the light,
and the awful darkness disappears completely.
-Christian Larson

Into my heart's night

Along a narrow way

I groped; and lo! the light,

An infinite land of day.

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Let the light penetrate the darkness
until the darkness shines
and there is no longer any division between the two.
-Rabbi Israel of Rizhyn

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness.
The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness
the Darkness disappeared.
The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished,
and there was only a gentle shining,
and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
-Madeline L'Engle

Light devoured darkness.
-Allama Prabhu

Light, endless Light!
darkness has room no more.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Light and darkness dancing together,
born together, born of each other,
neither preceding, neither following,
both fully being in joyful rhythm.
-Madeleine L'Engle,

I have known shadow.
I have known sun.
And now I know
These two are one.
-Rudyard Kipling