Quotes About Darkness

It was an ugly day. It was an ugly room. Except for the body.

Today she told me about the Crow King.

The lights began to dim; Cosima reached back for my hand. Darkness always prompts her affection.

Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

Soon we will plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our too-short summers!

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

In a ghost story, usually you've got to hang on until daylight, and you'll be alright. But if daylight's four months away, then you have a problem.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

You almost had to have grown up in the church like I did to realize how dark that is, how dark it is to be a kid and be told that God hates you or that there's something wrong with you.

Darkness is important. If you were having fun all the time, you wouldn't know what dark is.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.