Quotes About Darkness

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

There's a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.

Stephen King

She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

this life we think we're living isn't real. It's just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.

All is silent in the halls of the dead. All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead, Behold the stairways which stand in darkness; behold the rooms of ruin. These are the halls of the dead where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.

The sleep of reason breeds monsters.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

As I said at the beginning, this is a horror story.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.

And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire's time has come.

I was lost in the dark and you found me. I was hot - so hot - and you gave me ice.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary