
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Variant: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Variant: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.”
Not knowing (1869).
Source: Dark Age (2019), Ch. 35: Endure; Virginia, in a recorded message to Darrow
“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 90
“She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.”
Remark upon learning of the death of Eleanor Roosevelt, drawing upon the motto of the Christopher Society: "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." ; quoted in The New York Times (8 November 1962)
“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”
“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”
Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis
in tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus
interdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam
quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura.
hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest
non radii solis neque lucida tela diei
discutiant sed naturae species ratioque.
Book II, lines 55–61 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Calvin: I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes