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Quotes About Darkness

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation – one point of light. The most perfect Being of all had cried for light in His darkness – even He, the most perfect Being of all.
~ Radclyffe Hall
We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.
~ Rae Armantrout
The world is chock-full of monsters.
~ Rafael Yglesias
Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.
~ Raja alem
We die of words. We are hanged, drawn and quartered by dictionaries. We walk in the vale of shadows. It is an age of hobgoblins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The corridor didn't seem long enough to contain so much blackness. 'Passing Through Peacehaven
~ Ramsey Campbell
Unlike the rest he had seen of the bungalow, the hall beyond the door was dark. He could see the glimmer of three doors and several framed photographs lined up along the walls. The sound of flies was louder, though they didn't seem to be in the hall itself. Now that he was closer they sounded even more like someone groaning feebly, and the rotten smell was stronger too.
~ Ramsey Campbell
The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind him, he ventured down. For God's sake, get it over with; he knew he would never dare return.
~ Ramsey Campbell
As the light wavered into the rooms, they looked impossibly large with darkness, which seemed less still than it ought to be.
~ Ramsey Campbell
Here where North, the night, the berg of death Crowd me out of the ignorant darkness, I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
Evil exists, boy," he told patient Hero, "and it will always exist in abundance, if only to give the good an opportunity to shine." He scratched Hero's skull. "Truth #4.
~ Randall Silvis
The fate and future of social media news channel is in deep darkness the way the atrocity has increased of Govt and the manner in which free journalists are being framed in false charges. Mainstream media is enjoying bootlicking.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.
~ Ranjit Hoskote
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
~ Ray Bradbury
The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.
~ Ray Comfort
the light was black. It was not real light, not good light, not the light Lizzie knew, that you could read by or warm to, but a light that was made of darkness, a cancerous light, thick and smothering
~ Ray Garton
Cuando el cielo se oscureció y aunque no eran más que nubes, tuve la sensación de que todo terminaba y la sensación de haber sentido lo mismo un millón de veces.
~ Ray Loriga
It is not a fragrant world.
~ Raymond Chandler
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer?
~ Raymond E. Feist
We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.
~ Raymond Federman
He looks to me like he's turning into a... into a..." "Into a what?" "Into a giant bat!
~ Raymond Giles