Quotes About Darkness

I could tell you certain things which would convince you, but you would never know a happy day again. You would pass the rest of your life, as I pass mine, a haunted man, a man who has seen hell.

Siamo circondati da sacri mestieri del bene e del male, e viviamo e ci muoviamo in un mondo oscuro, un luogo di tenebre, caverne ed abitatori del crepuscolo. Talvolta accade che l'uomo si volga indietro sulle tracce della propria evoluzione, ed è mia opinione che esistano segreti paurosi non ancora dimenticati.

She often used to think of the strangeness of very early life; one came, it seemed, from a dark cloud, there was a glow of light, but for a moment, and afterwards the night. It was as if one gazed at a velvet curtain, heavy, mysterious, impenetrable blackness, and then, for the twinkling of an eye, one spied through a pin-hole a storied town that flamed, with fire about its walls and pinnacles. And then again the folding darkness, so that sight became illusion, almost in the seeing.

I shuddered at the idea of this incarnate fiend, whose soul is black with shocking crimes, mingling free and unobserved amongst the harmless crowds, meditating perhaps a new and more fearful cycle of infamies. I tell you, sir, that an awful being stalks through the streets, a being before whom the sunlight itself should blacken, and the summer air grow chill and dank.

Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and I listened to her as she spoke in her beautiful voice, spoke of things which even now I would dare not whisper in the blackest night, though I stood in the midst of a wilderness.

And thus, as a closer and still intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

À moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies. - Une saison en enfer

I have withered within me all human hope. With every silent leap of a sullen beast, I have downed and strangled every joy. I have called for executioners; I want to perish chewing on their gun butts. I have called for plagues, to suffocate in sand and blood. Unhappiness has been my god. I have lain down in the mud, and dried myself off in the crime-infested air. I have played the fool to the point of madness.

Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I was ripe for death and along a road of perils my weakness led me to the confines of the world and of Cimmeria, home of whirlwinds and of darkness. - Delirium II - Alchemy of the Word

I was ripe for death and along a road of perils my weakness led me to the confines of the world and of Cimmeria, home of whirlwinds and of darkness. from Delirium (II), Alchemy of the Wind - Hunger

Mille rêves en moi font de douces brûlure : Puis par instants mon cÅ"ur triste est comme un aubier Qu'ensanglante l'or jeune et sombre des coulures.

Man's labors! Explosions that, from time to time, illuminate my abyss.

The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known . Nor is God known by the intellect. "God is Spirit" (Joh 4:24), and therefore can only be known spiritually. But fallen man is not spiritual; he is carnal. He is dead to all that is spiritual. Unless he is born again, supernaturally brought from death unto life, miraculously translated out of darkness into light, he cannot even see the things of God (Joh 3:3), still less apprehend them (1Co 2:14).

Who are you?" "The devil," she said. "The devil in love.

El hombre tortura y mata porque es lo suyo. Le gusta.

Sería de justicia recordar que, en tiempos de oscuridad, siempre hubo hombres buenos que lucharon por traer a sus compatriotas las luces y el progreso... Y que no faltaron quienes procuraban impedirlo.

En esa Praga, señor Corso, en gabinetes oscuros, hay hombres que conocen la carmina, el arte de las palabras mágicas; la necromancia, o arte de comunicarse con los muertos —hizo una pausa, conteniendo la respiración, antes de susurrar— y la goecia... —... El arte de comunicarse con el diablo.

El dinero es la llave que abre la puerta oscura de los hombres.

If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on the threshold of eternal darkness, with oneself the only witness.

nothing is more human than cruelty

Así tu viuda sabrá por fin dónde duermes, era capaz de decir, y otras bromas semejantes, que maldita la gracia tenían. Pero

Porque el país en el que vivían no deseaba cambiar. Había demasiadas fuerzas oscuras tirando en dirección contraria.