Quotes About Darkness

Solace came only with darkness. When dusk yielded to the sweet oblivion of night.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. —EPHESIANS 6:12

Okay, big guy, as much as I'm enjoying this, I don't think my tan's improving much considering it's pitch dark. [Butch to Vishous] You don't have a tan. See? This is getting me nowhere. So how about we head home?

In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.

Me gustas más en las noches, cuando estamos los dos en la misma almohada, bajo las sábanas, en la oscuridad

Había estrellas fugaces. Las luces en Comala se apagaron. Entonces el cielo se adueñó de la noche.

I didn't know it was the booze, always the booze, that brought on the darkness.

You're very Johnny Depp in Secret Window.

Illumination is the essence while darkness is the matrix.

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

I no longer knew how to distinguish between the sweet light of tenderness and the blackness of sensuality

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,My truant lover has come, and it is dark.

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are powerless – in the long run. They – what shall we say? - have surrendered their intrinsicality. You can just go through evil, as you can go through a sewer, and come out on the other side. A loathsome process too.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

The kingdom of God will not be brought to fulfillment on earth by one great, sword-swinging battle against the powers of darkness, but only by each of us laboring and suffering day after day as Christ labored and suffered, until all things at last have been transformed.

Wohin gehen wir denn?" "In den Keller." "schloss Schattenhall hat einen Keller?" "Natürlich", sagte Homunkoloss. "Jedes unheimliche Schloss hat einen Keller" (S. 402)

In tiefen, kalten, hohlen Räumen, Wo Schatten sich mit Schatten paaren, Wo alte Bücher Träume träumen, Von Zeiten, als sie Bäume waren, Wo Kohle Diamant gebiert, Man weder Licht noch Gnade kennt, Dort ist's, wo jener Geist regiert, Den man den Schattenkönig nennt.

Knowledge is night!

When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys away...

He had lost the bright gods, and he had not been accepted by the dark. He was in a no soul's land, and in its isolation his own soul was withdrawn, small and heavy as a stone within him, and about his evil deed. No wonder it could not take wing and make the heralding music. That was the whole of reality now, the little stone inside, and outside the cold, dark ravine and the inescapable watcher.