Darkness
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
A state of privacy; secrecy.
A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
A state of distress or trouble.
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Darkness Quotations
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
Darkness Translations
darkness in Dutch is duister, duisternis, donker
Darkness in German is Finsternis
darkness in Spanish is tinieblas, obscuridad, tenebrosidad, oscuridad
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