Quotes About Darkness

There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

Anyway, The Snack really helps me to understand that death is a part of our life. There is life, and there is darkness, always together.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

Like a spear hurtling through darkness He was always in such a hurry To find a target to stop him Like a young lion trying out its roar At the far edge of the den The roar inside him was even louder

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.

How weak and little is the light,All the universe of sight,Love and delight,Before the might,If you love it not, of night.

a night twenty years ago and forever and but a prelude to the century, but a shadow of the far deeper descent into darkness that was yet to come….

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,In rayless majesty, now stretches forthHer leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

Where the Light falls, death falls; And in the darkness comes the Light.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.

Don't forget; evil also travels with you, wherever you go.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full

E poi amavo la scrittura di chi ti fa affacciare da ogni rigo per guardare di sotto e sentire la vertigine della profondità, la nerezza dell'inferno.

È brutto il cerchio del giorno vuoto, quando la sera ti si stringe intorno al collo come un cappio.

Deseo que de esta oscuridad broten manadas de perros rabiosos, víboras, escorpiones, enormes serpientes marinas. Deseo que mientras estoy aquí sentada, a la orilla del mar, de la noche lleguen asesinos que desgarren mi cuerpo. Sí, sí, que se me castigue por mi inutilidad, que me ocurra lo peor, algo tan devastador que me impida enfrentarme a esta noche, a mañana, a las horas y a los días que vendrán para confirmarme mi constitución inadecuada.

Yes, Imma was consoled but only because Lila was introducing her to a permanent stream of splendors and miseries, a cyclical Naples where everything was marvelous and everything became gray and irrational and everything sparkled again, as when a cloud passes over the sun and the sun appears to flee, a timid, pale disk, near extinction, but not look, once the cloud dissolves it's suddenly dazzling again, so bright you have to shield your eyes with your hand.

Everything was moving: the sea of fire under the crust of the earth, and the furnaces of the stars, and the planets, and the universes, and the light within the darkness and the silence in the cold.

M'immaginai una forza oscura acquattata nella vita della protagonista, un'entità che aveva la capacità di saldarle il mondo intorno, con i colori della fiamma ossidrica: una calotta azzurro-violacea dove ogni cosa le andava per il meglio schizzando scintille ma che presto si dissaldava, scindendosi in frammenti grigi privi di senso.