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Quotes About Darkness

The world is disappearing, piece by piece; the darkness has closed in around me long before the sun sets.
~ Sarah Monette
I can see the darkness winding around me like silk ribbons, streaming and flapping in a wind that is not there.
~ Sarah Monette
The weight of darkness pressing in on us from all sides was easier to bear with his voice to listen to.
~ Sarah Monette
The eye sockets of their skulls are dark, like they've got all the night inside their heads.
~ Sarah Monette
I had hoped that I might replace the burning blackness in my mind with the simple, remote darkness of the night sky. Sometimes I could calm myself that way, but tonight the longer I stared at the sky, its untouchable beauty, the more I wanted to hurt someone.
~ Sarah Monette
Noirance isn't about not being able to see. It's about not being able to find your way out of the dark. Being lost in a maze. Or being the creature in the heart of the maze who waits for the lost to come to it as they always will.
~ Sarah Monette
The great edifice of the Belfontaine Hotel loomed up out of the darkness and spitting snow and swallowed me whole, like a giant in a fairytale swallowing a fool.
~ Sarah Monette
I saw his smile, and I wanted, with the sudden pitiless clarity of a lightning bolt, to drag him away-out of the engine's maw, of the labyrith's heart, out of the cold and sleepless dark beneath Summerdown.
~ Sarah Monette
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
~ Sarah Vowell
I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.
~ Sarah Waters
They made her feel lonelier, suddenly, than she had ever felt before. She went creeping into her room and undressed without lighting a candle, then lay curled in bed in a ferment of misery. What was the use of her being alive? Her heart was some desiccated thing: a prune, a fossil, a piece of clinker. Her mouth might as well be filled with ashes. It was all utterly hopeless and futile . . .
~ Sarah Waters
She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark and heavy upon me, darker and heavier than any drug they ever gave me - it seemed heavy as death. I looked at the bed. I have seemed to see our kisses there sometimes, I've seen them hanging in the curtains, like bats, ready to swoop. Now, I thought, I might jolt the post and they would only fall, and shatter, and turn to powder.
~ Sarah Waters
No-one speaks. No-one moves (…). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells
~ Sarah Waters
They had been patient, all this time. They'd lived in darkness. They'd lived without salt, without scent. They'd fed themselves little scraps of pleasure, like pairings of cheese. Now she became aware if the minutes as they passed: she felt them, suddenly, for what they were, as fragments of her life, her youth, that were rushing away like so many drops of water, never to return.
~ Sarah Waters
Her eyes were still closed, and in the darkness, in her dark dress and coat, she seemed an assemblage of angular fragments...
~ Sarah Waters
and claws of creeping foxes.
~ Sarah Waters
We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells.
~ Sarah Waters
Wrestling with the darkness has left me more committed to this path than I could ever have imagined. And with one last beautiful question that guides me in my most personal moments: "What is left if we might lose it all?" My answer gets more beautiful by the hour: nature, humanity, and my wildly alive love of it all.
~ Sarah Wilson
MY PEACE is like a shaft of golden Light shining on you continuously. During days of bright sunshine, it may blend in with your surroundings. On darker days, My Peace stands out in sharp contrast to your circumstances. See times of darkness as opportunities for My Light to shine in transcendent splendor.
~ Sarah Young
I am Light, in whom there is no darkness at all.
~ Sarah Young
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. —1 PETER 2:9 NKJV
~ Sarah Young
Man's tendency is to hide from his sin, seeking refuge in the darkness. There he indulges in self-pity, denial, self-righteousness, blaming, and hatred. But I am the Light of the world, and My illumination decimates the darkness. Come close to Me and let My Light envelop you, driving out darkness and permeating you with Peace.
~ Sarah Young
IN ORDER TO HEAR MY VOICE, you must release all your worries into My care. Entrust to Me everything that concerns you. This clears the way for you to seek My Face unhindered. Let Me free you from fear that is hiding deep inside you. Sit quietly in My Presence, allowing My Light to soak into you and drive out any darkness lodged within you.
~ Sarah Young
When you commune with Me in the garden of your heart, both you and I are blessed. This is My way of living in the world—through you! Together we will push back the darkness, for I am the Light of the world.
~ Sarah Young