Quotes About Darkness

he seemed sunk in what seemed perpetual gloom.

everything started to look more sinister.

there was no romantic whisper of quiet woods or secret garden about them . . .

Somé parecia ter sido empalhado em ébano macio por um mestre que se entendiou da própria maestria e começou a tender ao grotesco.

Well of blackness, all defiling, Full of flattery and reviling, Ah, what mischief hast thou wrought Out of what was airy thought, What beginnings and what ends, Making and dividing friends! Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Contents of an Ink Bottle

He wanted to slice her open and lie inside the warm blood of her body.

Take your delight in momentariness,Walk between dark and dark—a shining spaceWith the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.

When it is bad… I go into the night and the night eats me

You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. And then God sent His Son to give it to you. Psychotherapy-3. III. 8:9-13.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

It was hard to perceive Calvary here; it was surely the air of Bethlehem, the celestial light, not the supernatural darkness, that beamed round the simple altar. It was the Child called Wonderful that lay there beneath the old hands, rather than the stricken Man of Sorrows.

and now with horror and loathing they had seen the clouds gather once more in the quarter whence all superstition had had its birth.

You had just read one of Tom Hess's discourses on how Newman's vertical zip was Adam, or the primal act of division of light from darkness, or the figure of the unnamable Yahweh himself. How could you disagree? On what could you base your trivial act of colonial dissent? A mere reproduction, two inches by three? But Yahweh doesn't show his face in reproductions. He shows it only in paintings.

Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Father, 'into Your hands I commit My spirit.' " – Luke 23:44–46

For the darkness shall turn to dawning, And the dawning to noonday bright; And Christ's great kingdom shall come on earth, The kingdom of love and light.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Gacy would later state that he experienced an orgasm while stabbing McCoy. "That's when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill," he added.

Dying doesn't scare me, I'll be in hell. With Satan." – Richard Ramirez

My mind's not right.A car radio bleats,"Love, O careless Love…. " I hearmy ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,as if my hand were at its throat….I myself am hell;nobody's here.

This is the Black Widow, death.

Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes

when they're bathed in blood everyday you can't expect them to rise from it stainless the next morning.

Because he knew in his very bones that there could be no reason, nor any special purpose, for a Divinity. Mankind had made it all up out of whole cloth because, at bottom, everyone was afraid of the dark, afraid of ultimate extinction, afraid to face the fact that individual lives meant nothing in the grand scheme of a vast and utterly indifferent cosmos.

They were like a million glistening grains of sugar on a black velvet cloth, and the waning moon shone like a Saracen's blade.