Quotes About Darkness

When it's dark enough men see stars.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.

She turns the speedometer off. Running totally black now. Precipitating her way toward the sweet 'crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parachute severed by the Almighty. And when the wheels finally meet the pavement, it just about drives her knees up through her jawbone. She finishes the whole gravitational transaction with not much altitude and a nasty head of dark velocity.

for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is, black steel and slate sky.

Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness.

It was black, the proper color for domestic terrorism during the evening hours

Depression starts slow.

Life is a nightmare

The stories we are told as children do, undoubtedly, mark us for life. They are often stories of dark and terrible things, and we are usually told them just before the lights are turned out and we are left alone; but we love them. We love them when we first hear them, and even when we are grown, and think we have forgotten them entirely, they never lose their power over us.

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

In a trillion or so years, anyone alive in our own galaxy may know nothing of other galaxies. Our observable universe will merely comprise a system of nearby, long-lived stars within the Milky Way. And beyond this starry night will lie an endless void—darkness in the face of the deep.

If everything is so bright, there will be no place for light.

Dark matter is dark; that means it does not interact with photons

At Concordia, a European science station based in Antarctica, about a dozen intrepid people spend months at a time together in perpetual darkness, farther from civilization than the International Space Station is from Earth.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a knownew way.

There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.

With a slightly accentuated jaw-line, Inspector Alleyn advanced to the footlights and gazed into the swimming darkness of the stalls. Mr. Bathgate, he said. Silence. Mr. Bathgate, lied Alleyn, I can see you. You're not looking in my direction at all, declared an indignant voice. Come

Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.

The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.

It's only until we confront the darkness of our past that we can responsibly move forward.