Quotes About Darkness

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

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

It was that time of the night when most of the drunks were already home in bed. The crickets were done chirping, and the birds weren't ready to herald sunrise.

Yesterday, a shaft of light cut into the darkness…. For the first time, an agreement has been reached on bringing the forces of nuclear destruction under international control.

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for them to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.

The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

Behind him, in the darkness, the ancient, invisible presence that inhabited the hill slipped silently back to its resting place, satisfied that another interloper had moved on.

Hij was de heer van Nacht en Ontij. Hij was ook niet helemaal goed bij zijn hoofd. Zoveel was wel duidelijk.

FULL NIGHT FELL SHORTLY AFTER THEY HAD SET OUT ON THeIR

The Stealer in the Night was Jory Ruhl.

And then the world turned red, then black. And there was nothing any more.

Help me, Lord, I'm slipping through. Help me, Lord, I'm falling. I'm being pulled in to a dense black hole from which there's no returning. It's yawning wide; it's sucking me in, but there's nothing to see. It's black as sin. Help me, Lord, I'm sinking down. Help me, Lord, I'm drowning... Adrian Rumble

follow and improve the light before the darkness overtakes you.

To those Romans December twenty-fifth was the birthday of the sun. They wrote that in gold letters in their calendar. Every year about that time, the middle of winter, the sun was born once more and it was going to put an end to the darkness and misery of winter. So they had a great feast, with presents and dolls for everybody, and the best day of all was December twenty-fifth. That feast, they would tell you, was thousands of years old- before Christ was ever heard of.

growing power is rooted in mystery like the night, and reaches lightward. Seeds sprout in the darkness of the ground before they know the summer and the day. In the night of the womb the spirit quickens into flesh.

we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...