Quotes About Darkness

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.

Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.

Blinding light filled the darkness. Someone clasped his wrist, lifting him, and in the midst of hell's cacophony, whispered, I am.

Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?

Never doubt in the darkness what God has given us in the light.

The Lord has not forsaken us. Never doubt in the darkness what God has given us in the light. The Lord is with us. He is here now. He will never leave us.

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

Blinding light filled the darkness. Someone clasped his wrist, lifting him, and in the midst of hell's cacophony, whispered, "I am." Claws grabbed him from beneath, and a dark, hate-filled voice echoed.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

And if any landscape can provide darkness, with a very real hint of menace, it is most surely the Fens.

He whistled at the thought: all those little people down there, surrounded by all this beauty, could not see the horror all around them, the impending storm about to swallow them up, the cancerous darkness that first blinds

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

The old woman was a witch shadow—hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.

attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow…

Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.

He felt that his mentat faculties had been dulled, let out a long, shuddering breath. A psychic shadow passed over him. In the emotional darkness of it, he felt himself waiting for some absolute sound—the snap of a branch in a jungle.

Black is a blind remembering

To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. —FROM "MANUAL OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Such was not my suggestion," he said. She heard the steel in his voice, the sense of command, and stared across the gray darkness of the stilltent at him. Paul was a silhouette against moon-frosted rocks seen through the tent's transparent end.

There is a delightful myth about the design of Onn I foster and promote the myth. It is said that once there lived a people whose ruler was required to walk among them once a year in total darkness, without weapons or armor. The mythical ruler wore a luminescent suit while he made his walk through the night shrouded throng of his subjects. And his subjects--they wore black for the occasion and were never searched for weapons.

Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace.

Die Schwärze ist eine schlechte Erinnerung. Man rechnet ständig damit, aus ihr hevortreten zu sehen, was man fürchtet - was man schon immer gefürchtet hat. Man hört in ihr sogar die Schreie derjenigen, vor denen einst die Vorfahren die Flucht ergriffen. In der Dunkelheit erinnern sich sogar die Zellen des Körpers längst vergessener Gefahren.

The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.