Quotes About Darkness

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.

If everyone is asleep in bed and it's dark and something happens, then that event is deemed to have taken place in The Middle Of The Night.

First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. —Journal of the Whills, 7:477

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.

It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he'd been called from his bed before dawn, weary because he'd spent his life looking at the bad side of human nature and that wasn't going to change.

Darkness crumbled into gloom the next morning

You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.

God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell in

My heart is dark and ripe as a bruise. An ache hollowing me out. Missing you has no purpose, no point. But still I do.

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.

If it took a monster to do that, doesn't that mean we sometimes need monsters?' 'Maybe we do. But that doesn't mean we should forgive them for what they are, even for an instant.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.