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Quotes About Darkness

Something dark had hooked itself into my heart.
~ Storm Constantine
Just when it seemed he must break through the surface and avail himself of the welcome wine of air, something heavy and dark come plummeting through the water and collided with him.
~ Storm Constantine
He felt that once the dark of the forest closed over them, they would never see clear sunlight again. Yet it was the kind of fear that excited him, made him want to dare its shadows.
~ Storm Constantine
In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.
~ Stormie Omartian
The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.
~ Stuart MacBride
The real me died years ago. I died and I went to hell. This is hell.
~ Stuart MacBride
There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes
~ Stuart Stevens
la pioggia rompeva tutti gli angoli della notte e non ne lasciava intero neanche un pezzetto.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
~ Sue Grafton
Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.
~ Sue Prideaux
War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness
~ Suheir Hammad
darkest before the dawn. it will get darker. be light.
~ Suheir Hammad
This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.
~ Susan Cooper
It is not a fragrant world.
~ Raymond Chandler
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
~ James Thurber
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?
~ Rogier van der Heide
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
~ Desmond Tutu
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
~ Colin Firth
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
~ Zosia Mamet
I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.
~ William Kempe
I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.
~ Joanna Garcia
Darkness disturbedBy the haunting white moonlightGrey half clouds fail to containThe moon's lust for the night.
~ Sreesha Divakaran