Quotes About Darkness

He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping.

I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a posi-tive relief, being something that had a right to exist—obviously—in the sunshine.

I did not betray Mr. Kurtz--it was ordered I should never betray him--it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone,--and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience.

Conocen ustedes la maldad de la inanición prolongada, su tormento desesperante, sus pensamientos oscuros, su ferocidad sombría y meditabunda

The tide of darkness flowed on swiftly; and with tropical suddenness a swarm of stars came out above the shadowy earth, while I lingered yet, my hand resting lightly on my ship's rail as if on the shoulder of a trusted friend.

And to a place I come where nothing shines.

Those who tow'rds Acheron do not descend.

Por esa razón afirmo que Kurtz era un hombre notable. Él tenía algo que decir. Lo decía. Desde el momento en que yo mismo me asomé al borde, comprendí mejor el sentido de su mirada, que no podía ver la llama de la vela, pero que era lo suficiente amplia como para abrazar el universo entero, lo suficiente penetrante como para introducirse en todos los corazones que baten en la oscuridad. Había resumido, había juzgado. «¡El horror!».

The horror, the horror.

Joseph Conrad

During the day, they avoided him, even Aarfy, and Yossarian understood that they were different people together in daylight than they were alone in the dark.

Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting.

O fígado representa um vasto e hediondo mistério, para nós. Se alguma vez comeu fígado frito, compreende o que quero dizer. Os estudos mais recentes permitem-nos concluir que ele existe de facto e fazer uma ideia geral da sua acção, quando funciona devidamente. Para além disso, ainda navegamos nas trevas.

The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to over-come the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.

It is a signal feature of depression that, in times of trouble, sensible ideas, memories of good times, and optimism for the future all recede into blackness.

In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

That was struggle enough; however, there was another plane of consciousness on which I was fighting every night that I lay down to rest. As I slid into the borderlands between waking and sleeping, negative beings attempted to pull me into their darkness. I learned to escape them by using words to make a ladder to bring me back.

her eyes closed against some unimagined darkness, where she is buried in an ache in which nothing makes sense.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

I could wish that I had recourse to the Prince of Darkness & his quick ways of revenge;

Joyce Carol Oates

Extraño: que cuando una luz se apaga, inmediatamente después es como si nunca hubiera existido. La oscuridad lo llena todo de nuevo, por completo.