Quotes About Darkness

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul.

God is the distance between light and darkness.

Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

You pessimists always fall into the disillusion trap," said the cheerful man cheerfully. "From one distance a thing looks bright. From another it looks dark. You think you've found the truth when you've replaced the cheerful view by the opposite, but true profundity blends all possible views, bright as well as dark.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

Evil is the absence of God.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

Evil requires no reason.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.

science has explained nothing; ...the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness....

For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .

Embryos are like photograph film, said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door. They can only stand red light. And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.

the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon. The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted with innumerable rubies, and among the rubies moved the dim red spectres of men and women with purple eyes and all the symptoms of lupus.

Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells.

The night stank and was loud with flies.

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.

Brown, thin-legged pedestrians appeared for a moment in the glare of the headlights, like truths apprehended intuitively and with immediate certainty, only to disappear again almost instantly into the void of outer darkness.