Quotes About Darkness

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened.

In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

Who are you?" "I'm the stuff of your nightmares... Actually, I'm the stuff your nightmares wake up screaming about

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with

Pedacinho por pedacinho, desliguei-a. Vi luzes se apagando uma após a outra. Observei o espaço Cansino retroceder. Primeiro sumiram as galáxias, logo em seguida as estrelas, e então: trevas, somente o fundo das minhas pálpebras.

Didn't anyone ask you where your parents are?" "They asked. Especially about my parents." "What did you tell them?" "I said I ate them." "Jesus, Rosa.

The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.

The mind of age is like a lamp Whose oil is running thin; One moment it is shining bright, Then darkness closes in.

To make a really effective monster you need to begin with a good man, and tell him lies … Edward

Der Tod kam beim Nacht und er kam nicht allein. Ein kleines Mädchen lief an seiner Seite.

The evil rising up from him; pouring off him in waves. It is like the foul stench of rotting meat, but it isn't just a scent. This runs soul deep. The hairs on my arms are standing on end just being this close to him.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won't help to call "I need a light" / You're in Karachi now / Oh, oh you're in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You're in Karachi now

We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.

There were moments, Hasan, when I like to think that the stars are bullet-holes. For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star, with so great a radiance that it can never be put out, it can never be imprisoned. But if that really were true, the last three months in this city would have erased every trace of blackness from the sky.

He felt the reassuring thump of having driven over a small animal, the jolt of it firming up the offer of a sick, annealing grin.

I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade... not for the good of the world... but for myself.

Bad people are intriguing!

Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.

I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can't invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.

I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I've known and invite other people to tell me their stories.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.