Quotes About Darkness

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but (s)he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!

My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you?

You have always wanted to caress every monster.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.

And now we celebrate, in victory bound, The feast of feasts: Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests! Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn, And light and darkness wedded are as one...

The night is also a sun.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

The world itself is a filthy monster.

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!...

Und wenn du lange genug in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Lankhmar City would feed me, aye, feed me well—and be paid only with lumps and perhaps a deep scratch or two. So to Lankhmar I went. Falling in there with a clever girl of the same turn of mind and some experience, I did well for two full rounds of moons and a few more. We worked only in black garb, and called ourselves to ourselves the Dark Duo.

Whoever'd think, Mr. Wong, they could put nine hours and maybe ten of good, good darkness into such a tiny time-capsule, a gelatin spaceship bound for the stars.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

Only those who walk in darkness ever see the stars.