Darkness Quotes
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one ...
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Show MoreClusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, eit...
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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...
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If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.'No offe...
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There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, ...
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And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte...
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Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...
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Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand."EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.A...
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,It lies behind stars and under hi...
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I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shel...
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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, ...
Show MoreKnow, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in...
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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...
Show MoreA 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...
Show MoreDarkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...
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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...
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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...
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And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are ...
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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;...
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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...
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So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging pers...
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing ...
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No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of ...
Show MorePoets, 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...
Show MoreHis was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bott...
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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,...
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...
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I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over ...
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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the m...
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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...
Show MoreI'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...
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Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...
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There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swa...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Show MoreHad she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar h...
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
Show MoreOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
Show More...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing i...
Show MoreEveryone 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...
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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...
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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
Show MoreA new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...
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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against pover...
Show MoreMan 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...
Show MoreThe moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...
Show MoreThis means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...
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An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away f...
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When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...
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The universe is amply supplied with night.
She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow...
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Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmare...
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Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simp...
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It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part ...
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Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the ligh...
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st...
Show MoreI would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, bet...
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Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it ...
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At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...
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If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to ...
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I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.
I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the ...
Show MoreLeaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze m...
Show MoreOh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...
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By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

Life blackens at the contact of truth.
She always walked under the arches of nightsAnd everywhere she wentShe leftThe mark of broken things...
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Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the la...
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If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would...
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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...
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This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...
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And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...
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I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.
