Darkness Quotes

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

She always walked under the arches of nightsAnd everywhere she wentShe leftThe mark of broken things...

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the la...

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would...

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

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...

I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afr...

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the...

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard...

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for ...

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall i...

Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful ...

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, eve...

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to ...

He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses fro...

There was the bulge and the glitter, and there was the cold grip way down in the stomach as though s...

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was wh...

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that i...

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no n...

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, m...

All I know is a door into the dark

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Sp...

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly.He froze."I can't figu...

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...

Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better...

They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God hel...

Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end...

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats f...

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a...

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o...

Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of s...

Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawer...

Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill,...

I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its m...

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...

Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those wh...

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask ques...

They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect t...

Black was the without eyeBlack the within tongueBlack was the heartBlack the liver, black the lungsU...

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thous...

Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could...

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...

I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished,...

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing ...

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst g...

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the ti...

The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

Nothing can be as peaceful and endless as a long winter darkness, going on and on, like living in a ...

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage....

They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go t...

They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into thedarkness, and they do not come back. The place they go to...

All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. Ther...

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

What makes night within us may leave stars.

From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, care...

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust i...

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes ...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare ...

One thing—one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds...

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accom...

This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for m...