Quotes About Darkness

I have faded into the habit of secretly existing under your skin. It is unbelievably dark under there; I am happy.

Troubles that lurk in the darkness of our own thoughts often feel gigantic. It's not until we expose these shadowy monsters to the light, by telling our friends, that they shrivel to a more manageable size. Whatever your problem is, you'll not be free of it by hiding.

I am trapped in darkness, Erienne. I can only come to you when the night will hide my face, and yet there grows in me a craving to take you in my arms while the sun is high, when I can see you flushed and warm with passion. 'Tis my hell that I must be a beast of the night." -Lord Saxton

We couldn't see the real dark for the metaphorical dark. Because of the metaphorical dark, the death-dark, we were constantly concerned to banish the natural dark.

Pity the dark: we're so concerned to overcome and banish it, it's crammed full of all that's devilish, like some grim cupboard under the stair. But dark is good. We are conceived and carried in darkness, are we not?

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness. . . . The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. —Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS

Only a fool would cross a night traveler.

Father Paul was at the start of life. His glassy convictions needed protection. They waited patiently until he too, succumbed to the unbearable unevenness of God's will, the sureness of his grace, the darkness of his mercy.

Complete enlightenment COULDN'T possibly be a good thing. Balance is key. Neither dark nor light should win. Humanity only wins through balance .

It was a late afternoon in the month of October—the "Column of the Year" as the robots called it, the month's thick almost substantive yellow light holding the rest of the year aloft above darkness lapping at its feet.

When you are in the light, don't step back into the darkness. When you are in the darkness, know that the light will come.

In some of us there's a fire that burns too brightly. It makes us feel things differently, painfully—even great joy. To feed that fire too often, to make the flames too strong is to destroy yourself. Ye burn and burn and burn. 'Tis too painful to live that kind of life. Yet 'tis beautiful, too. Too beautiful for words or thought, too beautiful to look upon. Ye can climb to the heavens on the colors of those flames, but ye can also fall into darkness without end.

Elizabeth Báthory

the smell of Satan rose up out of the bag and surrounded my soul.

I only know that you can't fight darkness with darkness. So maybe a Jedi shouldn't fight violence with violence, either. Sometimes, I even think that the more you fight evil, the more you empower it." -Jacen Solo

If that's the case.. Go deeper. To a world darker than black, brighter than white... Embrace it.

The world as he sees it is Hell.

So to catch a madman, we have to think like a madman?" "I wouldn't advise it," Cassie said very quietly. "That abyss is darker and colder than you can even imagine.

Remember that it's easier to see where light is coming from in the dark. This is important to remember, for when all the lights go out.

Dark Bakura [to Ry?gi]: If someone with a weak heart like you tried to solve the puzzle, you'd just end up trapped in a labyrinth of darkness.

Halloween is controllable horror.

Everything's dark, nothing is bright," the child sang, "No one can stop us on Halloween night." Evelyn smiled. "This is our night, this is our street, give us some money, or candy to eat." The

All my talent, if that's what you'd call it, goes only one way these days. Into the worst kind of darkness.