Quotes About Darkness

A girl in a yellow dress on a sunny day with nothing inside her but darkness

I have loved the stars too well to fear the night. ---Elizabeth Middleton Bonner

Great Spirit who gave us the darkness in which to rest. In that darkness we send our words to you.' 

There's a demon named Kali; he loves slaughterhouses and gold. He likes to gamble and he likes to fuck things up.

Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.

Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious.

When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if she was settling down, sleeping in the same bed every night, the darkness uninterrupted by any hint of emergency. It had felt as if all her difficulties were over.

On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars, In a wood too deep for a single star to look through, You led down a path whose turnings you knew in the darkness, But the scent of the dew-dripping cedars was all that I knew. I drank of the darkness, I was fed with the honey of fragrance, I was glad of my life, the drawing of breath was sweet; I heard your voice, you said, 'Look down, see the glow-worm!' It was there before me, a small star white at my feet.

They didn't understand that evil could grow if planted in a field of banal cruelty.

Only way to be safe is to let me protect you. You can be part of my family. You can be with your parents again, and we'll all become rich together. How does that sound?" Monster sniffed. "It sounds like a join-the-Dark-Side speech.

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

If you're going through a dark time... don't ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.