Darkness Quotes

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your sh...

These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from...

I am the sword in the darkness.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours...

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...

It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see noth...

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess co...

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certai...

The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfi...

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...

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

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f...

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little ...

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came ...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Ther...

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote fr...

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness a...

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo...

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voic...

...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and p...

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one ...

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your hea...

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, eit...

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling is...

If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.'No offe...

There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, ...

And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte...

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...

Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand."EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.A...

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,It lies behind stars and under hi...

I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shel...

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in...

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don...

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up m...

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are ...

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light;...

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,With purpose to explore or to disturbThe secrets of your real...

So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging pers...

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing ...

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of ...

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid app...

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bott...

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,...

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...

I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over ...

He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the m...

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

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...

Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swa...

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky cloud...

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and st...

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock...

Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar h...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing i...

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances...

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

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against pover...

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both...

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...

This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...

An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away f...

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...

The universe is amply supplied with night.