Quotes About Darkness

She saw the world as if in a vision: a dark room into which a beam of sunlight fell, with dust motes tumbling in and out, from darkness to light, and she felt that now she had finally moved into the sunbeam.

Many different thoughts rise up in the darkness - like those gossamer plants that grow in the lake, oddly bewitching and pretty as they bob and sway; but enticing and sinister, they exert a dark pull as long as they're growing in the living, trickling mire. ANd yet as long as they're nothing but slimey brown clumps when the children pull them in to the boat. So many strange thoughts, both terrifying and enticing, grow in the night.

The heat was thick as curtains. Night was fixing to slide over the world and the cicadas were calming down for that hushed time between daylight and darkness, when crickets rosined their bows.

JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing. MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons. JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could mean the wings were 'intended' to carry them upwards, out of the darkness, but they were defective in some way, these wings, so the pigeons aren't suicidal, not at all, just badly equipped for flying. Like the rest of us.

It is amazing how much knowledge we have of hope. Whisper bravely into the dark, heart — whisper bravely.

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Affiiction makes God appear to be absent for a time, more absent than a dead man, more absent than light in the utter darkness of a cell. A kind of horror submerges the whole soul. During this absence there is nothing to love. What is terrible is that if, in this darkness where there is nothing to love, the soul ceases to love, God's absence becomes final.

Un homme qui n'a pas pris la résolution de fidélité exclusive à la lumière intérieure installe le mensonge au centre même de l'âme. Les ténèbres intérieures en sont la punition.

Only God-the One through whom all things were made (1:3, cf. v. 10), in whom was life and light (v. 4)-can reverse creation's death and dissipate the darkness caused by sin. 2. But since that death and darkness are within creation, within man, the Word must become flesh in order to restore it from within. The Creator must enter His own creation, groaning as it is under the burden of alienation from Him.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.

Harmony will prevail. After darkness, there will be light. The light cannot come without the darkness. Better days are bound to come now.

My new rule for life. Don't go into spooky dark woods on your own. You're not on your own.

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out...My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it's the best stuff...If rhubarb needs time in the dark maybe you do too.

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;

The working of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark

Inviolable, untrod; goddesses, Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide.

Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.

We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us

All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, then bury from light; and there is nothing for which man may not look. The dreaded oath is vanquished, and the stubborn will.

In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.

Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.