Quotes About Darkness

There are times when you will fear your own shadow during night; never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese

Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Bartholomeus went on, 'I wanted to show that these objects are sensitive, suffer at the coming of night, faint at the departure of the last rays, which, by the way, also live in this room; they suffer as much, they fight against the darkness. There you have it. It's the life of things, if you like. The French would call it a nature morte, a picture of inanimate objects. That is not what I'm trying to show. Flemish puts it better: a still life.

Wilhelmine chatted on, chatted as if emboldened by the gathering dusk. She wasn't afraid any more. She didn't blush any more. And in this chatter without lamplight the dark seemed to suffuse her words as well. Her voice deepened. Darkness can have a strange influence. It has something religious about it and makes one speak in a low voice, as if in a church.

Why, despite the blinding brightness, did everything look gray? It was as if the painfully sharp lights were helpless to dispel all the darkness the people had brought in from the night outside.

in a star-lit sky, shedding only the feeblest light.

ink-black shadows

The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding.

Regardless of when and how it happens, the dark night of the soul is the transition from bondage to freedom in prayer and in every other aspect of life.

the dark night is nothing other than our ongoing relationship with the Divine.

We fear the beast because we fear the beast within...

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home - Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, - one step enough for me.

The dreadful dead of dark midnight.

Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural.

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.

The night cometh when no man can work.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The night is dark, and I am far from home.

Making night hideous.