Quotes About Darkness

our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...

we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...

cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...

evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...

God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...

As I went through the city by day I saw shadows in sunlight; But in the night I saw everywhere Stars within the darkness.

We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together.

Darkness, weeping, and gnashing of teeth. This language in Matthew 25:30 would have been familiar to a Jewish audience. It was used to describe a place of judgment (hell, Gehenna) in literature that had been written in the centuries between the Old and New Testaments. The third steward was not a true member of the kingdom and would suffer the consequences.

The Swan It was April, I remember, though my spirit was December, When a broken bird was lifted from the darkness of the lake, In the sun white feathers gleaming, from her mouth black water streaming, While within my voice was screaming until I thought my heart would break; It was I who watched her dying, drifting, drifting, waiting in her wake For God her soul to take.

The fall could have taken her all the way down, so deep she would not have come back the same or even close. He was going to pound her into the dark and leave her there.…

not everyone could walk into the dark and make the hard choice.

On the forever days in the forever dark, Eli's voice had held Adrian together.

The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.

The gray light was unforgiving, and the road in was a hard, fast slide to the bottom rung of the human experience.

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom;Lead thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home;Lead thou me on!Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene; one step enough for me.

Your talk had a glow that fought the darkness back.

Fear dims even the sunlight.

The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us

my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect