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Quotes About Darkness

So then Joseph knew that he had no idea how to escape from the darkness closing round him, unless it might be to engineer his own death,...
~ Rose Tremain
While we are in that condition of darkness, we cannot have true fellowship with our brother either--for we are not real with him, and no one can have fellowship with an unreal person.
~ Roy Hession
What is this, said the leopard,that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?
~ Rudyard Kipling
The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night
~ Rudyard Kipling
May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. —Evening Hymn.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The slayer and the monk... let them spend their final moments together in private, won't you Inuyasha? Heh heh heh... Their sorrow feeds the darkness of the jewel nicely. How ironic. The more they love each other, the darker their despair...- Naraku
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Kagome...the light...the light will kill Naraku.- Kanna
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Jealousy? Is this, too, part of Onigumo's grubby heart?- Naraku
~ Rumiko Takahashi
We pass between sea and sky with unaccountable, humiliating ease, as if there were no firmament between the firmaments, no above or below, here or there, now or then, with only the feeble conventions of language, our contrived principles, and our love of one another's light to keep our own light from going out; abandon any one of them, and we dissolve in darkness like salt in water.
~ Russell Banks
Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.
~ Russell Hoban
They had run out of words.... Then he and the Lamp were gone.... Ruse swallowed hard and then began counting bones again in the dark. Then when he reached the right elbow he stopped, and started counting suspects.
~ Ruth Downie
Even in times of grief, we can keep from being submerged and shattered if we seek out God's words of comfort today, letting shafts of sunlight from His presence break through our darkness.
~ Ruth Myers
Everything seemed to grow blacker as I sat there, except for the fireflies whose tiny pulsing lights drew arcs through the dark summer air. On off . . . on off . . . on off . . . on off. The longer I stared, the dizzier I got, until I felt as if the world was tipping and pitching me forward down the mountainside into the long throat of the night.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It's going to get dark," she said. "We better go back." She shifted and then knelt beside her dead pet, leaning down until her lips touched their ear. "Goodbye, my dear darling TAZ," she whispered. "I love you. You'll be with me forever." Benny watched, wishing once again that he were the dead ferret.
~ Ruth Ozeki
your own now.
~ Ruth Rendell
But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.
~ Ry? Murakami
Ryder Windham
~ Darth Vader
Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in the evening's profound darkness, in which only the trembling voices of old men resound, because the women and children are silent, raptly listening. That is what the evening hour is so important: it is the time when the community contemplates what it is and whence it came.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in the evening's profound darkness, in which only the trembling voices of old men resound, because the women and children are silent, raptly listening. That is why the evening hour is so important: it is the time when the community contemplates what it is and whence it came.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Ahora miraréis, en la tiniebla, a los que nunca debisteis ver, y no a los que tanto ansiasteis conocer.
~ Sófocles
Bulutlar?n h?zl? uçuÅŸlar?, ???k ve karanl???n birbirini kovalamas? beni öylesine sarhoÅŸ eder ki uyan?k olduÄŸum halde düÅŸ görürüm
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.
~ Salman Rushdie
the children of the hour of darkness were born, I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.
~ Salman Rushdie