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Quotes About Darkness

Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/ I was me but now he's gone/
~ Metallica
Darkness/Imprisoning Me/All That I See/Absolute Horror/I Cannot Live/I Cannot Die/Trapped In Myself/Body My Holding Cell
~ Metallica
Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.
~ Michael A. Arnzen
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.
~ Michael Chabon
Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
~ Michael Chabon
She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack. When
~ Michael Chabon
She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
~ Michael Chabon
The short story narrates the moment when a dark door, long closed, is opened, when a forgotten error is unwittingly repeated, when the fabric of a life is revealed to have been woven from frail and dubious fiber over top of something unknowable and possibly very bad.
~ Michael Chabon
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.
~ Michael Chabon
She could not help it. She had a catastrophic imagination; an air of imminent doom darkens much of even her sunniest work.
~ Michael Chabon
silence was darkness, and that naming shone a light.
~ Michael Chabon
The woman he met at the Waxmans' that second evening seemed heavy at her core, subject to some crushing gravity. She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack.
~ Michael Chabon
If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you.
~ Michael Connelly
it's like the laws of physics—for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.
~ Michael Connelly
The good ones all had that hollow space inside. The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever.
~ Michael Connelly
Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.
~ Michael Connelly
one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else.
~ Michael Connelly
He knew evil could never be vanquished. It just moved from one place to another and waited.
~ Michael Connelly
Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.
~ Michael Connelly
The black heart does not beat alone.
~ Michael Connelly
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you….
~ Michael Connelly
Darkness waits. All things come to the dark.
~ Michael Connelly
People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies.
~ Michael Connelly
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you. You know, all the clichés. They're clichés because they're true. You don't go into the darkness without it going into you and taking its piece.
~ Michael Connelly