Quotes About Darkness

Whatever else my life is with its poems and its music and its glass cities, it is also this dazzling darkness coming down the mountain, breathing and tasting; all day I think of her— her white teeth, her wordlessness, her perfect love.

Believe me these are not just words talking. This is my life, thinking of the darkness to follow. — Mary Oliver, from "Sand Dabs, Three," West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

The cup of life was poisoned for ever; and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

La luna sbirciava le mie fatiche nel cuore della notte.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.

I lay wakeful, watching the empty dark, listening to the little wind which had sprung up throwing handfuls of rain against the walls of the tent

from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me – a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius, who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.

Quién puede concebir los horrores de mi encubierta tarea, hurgando en la húmeda oscuridad de las tumbas o atormentando a algún animal vivo para intentar animar el barro inerte? Ahora me tiemblan los miembros con sólo recordarlo; entonces me espoleaba un impulso irresistible y casi frenético.

Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. —COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER

I too can create desolation

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light. -Gaara

I shut my eyes a long time ago. The things I seek lie only in darkness.

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

His life was a suicide. He gave up his soul for fear, little by little, until there was nowhere left in the universe but hell.

He began to understand why some people feared the dark so much. The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.

cadenassée. Les ceps nus, noirs, tordus, ressemblent

Don't follow someone into the dark, Stevie. I've seen it happen too many times.

When the darkness came for Dottie, it was quick and it was total.