Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

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.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

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

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

I make sure I have a smile every day for everybody because our stories within it have a darkness and we don't need to bleed it into real life because people have got their own issues going on. So I'd always come in and be the biggest idiot on set.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

'Monty Python' became my religion when I was 10. It led me out of the depths of darkness. I loved 'The Goodies,' too, and 'The Two Ronnies.' I watched those shows on the public television station in Chicago.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think people have still got an appetite for that type of music-melody and darkness.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.