Quotes About Darkness

How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

Must you always see the dark side of everything?' Julia said. 'Someone has to,' Jackson said. 'Yes, but does it have to be you?' Apparently, yes. It did.

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.

I have no idea how to love another human being unless it's by tearing them to pieces and eating them.

Fanning Court. God forbid. Teddy could no longer sit in the chair. He could no longer leave the bed, no longer do anything. He was approaching the end of his twilight, entering into the final darkness. Viola imagined the synapses in her father's brain flaring and dimming like the slow death of a star. Soon Teddy would burn out completely and implode and become a black hole. Viola was hazy on the subject of astrophysics, but she liked the image.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.