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Quotes About Darkness

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.
~ Jim Starlin
The darkness and myself. Everything else was gone. And the little that was left of me was going, faster and faster.
~ Jim Thompson
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
~ Jim Thompson
So clear off the streets when the sun goes down because darkness has always been hers, it's where she's lived all her life and she can see in the dark, cry in the dark, eat and love and hurt in the dark, it's hers and it's all we gave her, so when she catches us there in it, she doesn't give a shit who we are, what color we are, she'll bring it to us, make us feel a little of the darkness she's felt and lived in all her life.
~ Jimmy Santiago Baca
Na própria precisão com que outras passagens lembradas se oferecem, de entre impressões confusas, talvez se agite a maligna astúcia da porção escura de nós mesmos, que tenta incmpreensivelmente enganar-nos, ou, pelo menos, retardar, que prescutemos qualquer verdade.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Não é só no escuro que a gente percebe a luzinha dividida?
~ João Guimarães Rosa
You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.
~ Joan Bauer
You don't understand how much light you've got until the lights go out
~ Joan Bauer
Peace be with you. The darkest day of the year has dawned, and the Great Medicine Wheel has shifted from the West to the North.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
We become whole, healed, by making the invisible visible and bringing the darkness to light.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
We are entering the season of darkness during which we partake in the most ancient of miracles, giving birth to the Light.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
~ Joan Chittister
we try so hard to avoid the rest of the year: how do we deal with the God of darkness as well as the Giver of light?
~ Joan D. Chittister
You are the light that swirls around me, Darkness lies over the desert.
~ Joan London
Anything could be hiding down here!" "Don't think like that. You'll just scare yourself." "I'm already scared!" "Well, don't scare me then!
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.
~ Joan Schenkar
Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.
~ Joanna Russ
That's how pathetic things had gotten. I'd actually sat alone in the darkness lusting after a girl like some fucking Robert Pattinson wannabe. At least I smoked instead of sparkled.
~ Joanna Wylde
Kind of like Batman. On a motorcycle.
~ Joanna Wylde
I counted to three, then popped up and shot four times into the darkness. "now that our sniper knows we can fight back, he'll have to be more cautious about approaching the truck. That'll slow him down, which might make the difference for us." "So your solution is to play Whac-a-Mole with a murderer?
~ Joanna Wylde
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
~ Jodi Picoult
The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.
~ Jody Shields
When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side.
~ Joe Abercrombie