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Quotes About Darkness

But after a person has been in analysis for nearly four years, it becomes second nature to automatically study and dissect all dreams and dream fragments. With his mind busily seeking the symbolic content of darkness, rubber masks, and strange voices, he couldn't completely lose control, or remain panic-stricken for very long. "Oh," he said, sighing with relief, "it's just the kidnappers.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The boys reached the woods as night fell. "It's so dark in here I couldn't see Buck if he flew past my nose in a garbage truck," said Casper.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Elsewheres South The long green shutters are drawn. Against what parades? Closing our eyes against the sun, We try to imagine The darkness of an interior Where something might still happen: The razor lying open On the cool marble washstand, The drip of something--is it water?-- Upon stone floors.
~ Donald Justice
A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.
~ Donald L. Hicks
My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
~ Beetlejuice
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
~ May Sarton
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?
~ Stephenie Meyer
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.
~ George Harrison
What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?
~ Rick Riordan
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
~ Zane Grey
The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.
~ Jessica Sorensen
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
~ Corita Kent
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
~ Gerard Way
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.
~ James Hillman
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
~ Catherine Doherty
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
~ Barnabas
In this filthy despicable world someone suddenly reached out and held on to me. My life in my darkest moment, at the moment of all moments. The one person that reached out to me, was you Yoon Jae In
~ Kim Young-kwang
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
~ J. K. Rowling
Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.
~ Stephen Colbert
It's hard to describe, but I imagine the way I am at this moment is a lot like getting sucked into a vortex. Everything dark and churning, but slow churning instead of fast, and this great weight pulling you down, like it's attached to your feet even if you can't see it. I think, This is what it must feel like to be trapped in quicksand.
~ Jennifer Niven