Quotes About Darkness

I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds cease. I know I felt something as it began, an understanding, foreboding, ordinance, even. Love is never the oldest story. It grows in the rich darkness.

A horror so deep only ritual can contain it.

Let the day perish in which I was born Let the blackness of night terrify it Let the stars of its dawn be dark May it not see the eyelids of the morning Because it did not shut the door of my mother's womb

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

First thought: How terrible that she cannot kill herself .

Horror is terror that stayed the night.

The dark owns everything, but our sun comes out often enough that we think the universe is half dark, half light.

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

His eyes were green and cold and brilliant with murder.

What you're asking me to do is monstrous." "So? Ain't we both monsters?

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' " is one of the scariest stories I have ever read,

The darkness was crowding up around me, and, while I couldn't hear the Virtu any longer, I was becoming fretfully aware of something else, a noise like some vast heartbeat, only with too many pulses. Mélusine, breathing.

I felt as if I walked inside a cold shadow, a shadow cast by bricks and mortar.

For Lilah, the light made everything worse. It was harder than the dark uglier, and anything it showed her would be true beyond any hope of redemption.

My vision is warping and splintering again; I can feel the darkness waiting for you, feel myself sliding inch by inch, fingertip by fingertip, back into the world of monsters and ghosts out of which the Curia lifted me. Sometimes when I look at him, Thaddeus has the head of a raven.

I took a breath that felt like a scream, and found the real darkness of the Hall of the Chimeras, candlelit and thick with shadows. I called the witchlight in a blazing crown, as if I could force the shadows to fail and die by nothing more than strength of will. Mavortian glanced back, and I could read the look he gave me; I'd seen it a thousand times before: peacock. I gave him my best and most infuriating smirk in return.