Quotes About Darkness

people either live in the light or walk in the darkness; they either stand for the truth or propagate error.

Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion

So turn off the television—in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favorite chair?—and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them, because while I was working on this book, I believed in them myself.

just a moment his own consciousness had plunged through his daddy's darkness to an incomprehensible word much more frightening than DIVORCE, and that word was SUICIDE.

She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special . . . but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.

remember the simplest thing of all: how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!" "I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely.

When traitors are called heroes (or heroes traitors, he supposed in his frowning way), dark times must have fallen.

The author of so many evils," he said.

He had begun business many years ago—as a wandering peddler on the blind face of a distant land, a peddler who carried his wares on his back, a peddler who usually came at the fall of darkness and was always gone the next morning, leaving bloodshed, horror, and unhappiness behind him.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us. And sometimes...they win...

The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.

Oh, what the fuck,' she told the empty house. 'Bring on the night.

I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book.

Darkness loves him. He dances with it like a lover and the moon comes up over the purple hill and what was sweet smells sour. Smells like poison.

Things with the power to scare the living shit out of you on a thundery midnight in most cases seem only interesting in the bright light of a summer morning.

Horror's a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.

Here's something else I believe: if you're going into a very dark place—like Wilf James's Nebraska farmhouse in "1922"—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?

Murder is blue

What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other.

In a real dark night of the soul, Scott Fitzgerald had said, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.? Stephen King, The Shining

Go slow past the Drawers, gunslinger. Watch for the taheen. While you travel with the boy, the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.