Quotes About Darkness

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble." —Shakespeare (Macbeth)

Satan is also known as the accuser, the slanderer, and the deceiver.

If you turn on the light fast enough, you can see the darkness

Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

There is a place you can go that is below down and beyond bad. When you get there, every minute that passes goes by like an hour. Every hour that passes feels like an achievement without a goal. And everything around you makes you hurt.

Not for me, I'd always assumed they were dirty," Professor Pendleton said. "But that comes part and parcel with working in Subtlety. You don't see that much work in the shadows and assume there aren't a few things done in true darkness.

Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.

Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The Dark Side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.

What happened to the others?" she wanted to know. "I killed them," he replied. Zannah seemed to think about this for a moment before shrugging indifferently. "Then they were weak," she said with simple conviction. "And they deserved to die.

HERE THE DARKNESS REIGNS ETERNAL. There is no sun, no dawn; just the perpetual gloom of night. The only illumination comes from jagged forks of lightning, carving a wicked path through angry clouds. In their savage wake thunder shreds the sky, unleashing a torrent of hard, cold rain. The storm is coming, and there is no escape.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Lots of writers are fascinated by evil and write copiously about it, but they are bored by virtue; this not only limits their scope but prevents a satisfactory account of evil, which can no more be comprehended apart from good than light can be comprehended apart from darkness.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.