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Quotes About Darkness

No matter how hard I fight to stay "in the light," I will have some darkness in my life. This is as sure as the patter of sunrise and sunset in the natural course of the day.
~ Joyce Rupp
Aunque pensar en la oscuridad no es conveniente: las cosas parecen más grandes o más graves en la oscuridad, las enfermedades más destructivas, la presencia del mal más cercana, el desamor más intenso, la soledad más profunda
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Cohabito con un oscuro animal. Lo que hago de día, de noche me lo come. Lo que hago de noche, de día me lo come. Lo único que no me come es la memoria. Se encarniza en palpar hasta el más chico de mis errores y mis miedos. No lo dejo dormir. Soy su oscuro animal.
~ Juan Gelman
La Otra Carla le ha mostrado una verdad irrebatible: La vida no es nada. Sólo un fogonazo entre dos negruras infinitas.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
El día empieza a medianoche, en mitad de la oscuridad. Y luego todo es luz.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Dime, chico... ¿Has bailado con el demonio a la pálida luz de la luna? JACK NAPIER
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Ya está el viento, muchachos, el viento de otoño, del otoño, violento o suave casi como un suspiro, una enfermiza alma de qué oscuros reinos? que revela en las cosas un herido pensamiento de sorprendidas criaturas.
~ Juan L. Ortiz
Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle about the sky.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Cruciatus Curse, which first appeared in the fourth Harry Potter novel, derives squarely from this source. In magical parlance, "crosses" are life's challenges and trials. Someone suffering from a "crossed condition" exists under a dark cloud. Uncrossing spells remove these crosses. Cross candles are burned to eliminate life's hardships.
~ Judika Illes
Suddenly, the window swung open and a man's silhouette appeared against a flash of lightning. The candle was blown out by the wind, leaving the room in semidarkness. Elizabeth blinked, not certain if she had really seen the man or not. "Is someone there?" "Eliz-a-beth." A shadow detached itself from the darkness and moved toward her. Her heartbeat quickened. "Cain?" "I told you I would come for you, Eliz-a-beth.
~ Judith E. French
I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did. When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look. Now I blended in.
~ Judy Budnitz
Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.
~ Jules Henri Poincaré
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
~ Jules Verne
Die Nacht wurde erfunden, damit wir uns Stück für Stück an die Dunkelheit gewöhnen. Der Schlaf wurde erfunden, damit wir uns Nacht für Nacht an den Tod gewöhnen.
~ Juli Zeh
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise...As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
~ Julia Cameron
Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.
~ Julia Green
There is always that choice, the light or the dark
~ Julia Green
The water is deep and dark. It shines like treacle in the lights from the boat. You'd go down, down, down.
~ Julia Green
pudo terminar la frase: el hombre la agarró del brazo y tiró de ella con fuerza al interior de la vivienda, arrastrándola hasta un amplio salón, también en la penumbra.
~ Julia Navarro
He closed his eyes. The insides of his eyelids were a brownish black, not at all the same as the thick purple of the night. Darkness had so many colors. It was strange, that, and perhaps a little disquieting. But— ?Oh!? A foot slammed into his left calf, and he opened his eyes just in time to see a woman tumbling backward. Right onto his blanket. He smiled. The gods still loved him.
~ Julia Quinn
He could just barely make out her form in the path about ten yards ahead of him. Her hair was so fair it captured what little moonlight hung in the darkness and glowed like a halo.
~ Julia Quinn
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
~ Blaise Pascal
I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
~ Kevin Durand
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
~ Soledad O'Brien