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Quotes About Darkness

There is light underwater, even at night, but it is a far cry from the lights that we all know and love... the light by which the reaper reads his list.
~ Tom Robbins
Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.
~ Tom Robbins
It was laughter that might have been squeezed from the tubes of his own darkest heart, then amplified fifty times through the bellows of a loon's ass.
~ Tom Robbins
She felt like a black candle at a wake for a snake.
~ Tom Robbins
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
~ Tom Stoppard
I had a dream which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air
~ Tom Stoppard
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?
~ Toni Morrison
Beloved wasn't interested. She said when she cried there was no one. That dead men lay on top of her. That she had nothing to eat. Ghosts without skin stick their fingers in her and said beloved in the dark and bitch in the light.
~ Toni Morrison
Nevertheless, remembering how the curate described what existed before creation, Scully saw dark matter out there, thick, unknowable, aching to made into a world.
~ Toni Morrison
She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? No. Too dark. The bathroom. It was both small and bright, an she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief. Bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.
~ Toni Morrison
She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? No. Too dark. The bathroom. It was both small and bright, and she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief. Bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.
~ Toni Morrison
The dark ending does not cancel out the brightness of the middle. Your day of greatest joy cannot be dimmed by any shame.
~ Tony Hoagland
Here we are in the splendor of the paradox of light and darkness. The paradox weaves out a magnificent tapestry in which numberless lights and darknesses intersect each other and interpenetrate in such a way that the whole universe is presented as a multidimensional and intricately shaded Temple of Light.
~ Toshihiko Izutsu
Beneath an unsinking black sun...through the boundless gloom...our journey continues.
~ Kentaro Miura
I??k ne kadar kuvvetliyse, dü?en gölgeler de o kadar karanl?kt?r
~ Kentaro Miura
Don't forget.../ ...When you gaze into the darkness.../ The darkness gazes back into you.
~ Kentaro Miura
Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other.
~ Keri Arthur
The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.
~ Keri Hulme
Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out? She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.
~ Kerry Greenwood
I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
~ Kevin Bacon
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
~ Kevin Bacon
You live in the light, and then you become the night.
~ Kevin Brennan
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.
~ Kevin Brooks
Why shine, when there's nothing to shine on?
~ Kevin Brooks