Delmore Schwartz Quotes

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

The dark is light enough.

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.

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

When I get by the ocean, that's the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.