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Quotes About Darkness

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I just love vampires.
~ Matt Smith
I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
She was halfway up the stairs, the flashlight beam bobbing on the steps in front of her, when she heard a small sound. Mice. Please let it be mice. A funny thing to wish, considering how much she hated mice.
~ Betty Ren Wright
The man towered over her five-foot-four-inch frame by a good ten inches. He was big, dark and deadly-looking, with piercing ebony eyes and long, silky black hair secured in a ponytail. Dressed all in black—leather jacket, cotton shirt and jeans—he blended into the night like a prince of darkness. Rorie shuddered at the thought. Whoever or whatever this man was, he was danger personified.
~ Beverly Barton
They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.
~ bilal
There is a phenomenon called Trail Magic, known and spoken of with reverence by everyone who hikes the trail, which holds that often when things look darkest some little piece of serendipity comes along to put you back on a heavenly plane.
~ Bill Bryson
It was a haven, a little island of light in the darkness of the downtown, very like the diner in Edward Hopper's painting 'The Nighthawks'.
~ Bill Bryson
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It's quite wonderful, really.
~ Bill Bryson
I felt weightless. I felt nothing would happen to me. I felt that anything might happen to me. I was looking straight ahead, running, trying to keep up, and things were occurring along the dark peripheries of my vision: there would be a bright light and then darkness again and the sound, constantly, of something else breaking, and of movement, of objects being thrown and of people falling.
~ Bill Buford
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
~ Bill Watterson
And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together
~ Billy Joel
What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?
~ Blaise Pascal
There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.
~ Blaise Pascal
God's will has been to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek it, but men have shown themselves so unworthy that it is right for God to refuse to some, for their hardness of heart, what he grants to others by a mercy they have not earned... 'There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.
~ Blaise Pascal
What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.
~ Blue Balliett
Faith is the fullness to realize that each moment of our lives is a gift; that the whole of our lives is a spiritual journey, whether in our darkest hours or brightest joys.
~ Bo Lozoff
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
~ Bob Dylan
Serve God and be cheerful, look upward, beyond, beyond the darkness of masks, the surprises of dawn, in the deep green grasses of the blood-stained world.
~ Bob Dylan
I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My family was my light and I was going to protect that light at all cost. That was where my dedication was, first, last and everything in-between. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Not a damn thing.
~ Bob Dylan
Mama, take this badge off of me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark, to dark for me to see I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door Mama, put my guns in the ground I can't shoot them anymore That long black cloud is com in' down I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
~ Bob Dylan
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
~ Bono
La oscuridá es la sangre de las cosas heridas. En el incierto ocaso la tarde mutilada fue unos pobres colores.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS