Quotes About Darkness

Sainte-Croix, a strange mixture of qualities good and evil, had reached the supreme crisis of his life, when the powers of darkness or of light were to prevail. Maybe, if he had met some angelic soul at this point, he would have been led to God; he encountered a demon, who conducted him to Satan.

El carruaje partió inmediatamente, y aprovechando Artagnan la oscuridad que reinaba en la bóveda bajo la cual pasaba, se arrojó en brazos del prisionero exclamando: - ¡Rochefort! ¿Sois vos? ¡No me equivoco...!

Y entonces la soledad se poblaba con sus pensamientos, las tinieblas se desvanecían ante sus ilusiones, y el silencio se turbaba con sus votos y sus proyectos.

la maldad de los hombres es muy profunda!

There is no sun.

We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.

The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.

What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.

In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.

She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.

She said this world was a hole of darkness, of black light and evil and loss. But if that were true, there would never have been any bright light in our lives. My mother would never have existed, my brother would never have been such a fine man, Andres would not be waiting for me somewhere, though I didn't know where.

You walk into the dark and the darkness abides within you.

After listening in, Franny had decided that magic was not so very far from science. Both endeavors searched for meaning where there was none, light in the darkness, answers to questions too difficult for mortals to comprehend. Aunt Isabelle knew her niece was there on the stairs taking notes, but said nothing. She had a special fondness for Franny. They were alike in more ways than Franny would care to know.

How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house.

It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.

Black cats can do that to some people: They make them go all shivery and scared and remind them of dark.

That's good luck, Aunt Jet says when their electricity goes as well. We'll be the light in the darkness.

When darkness falls, and the sky sifts down into the river, the woman who swims in its depths holds on to the side of the canoe that drifts toward her. She pulls herself into the boat, where a tall man is waiting in the fading light, for he is an expert in matters of light and darkness, a master of seeing through shadows. He spies her every time, even when the sky is murky an she is invisible to all other men's eyes.

but inside she was broken, made of bones and black ribbons, blood and darkness.

the sky outside was so gloomy it pushed down on anyone who dared to walk beneath it.