Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Darkness
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
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But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.
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I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...
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You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
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How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.
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Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
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We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
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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.
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