Quotes About Darkness

The horror genre has long been used to uncover the dark underbelly of things.

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.

Swimming outside the pool is scary. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me - it's quite dark in lakes. I swam in the sea in Australia around the Great Barrier Reef, though, and that was incredible because you could see exactly what was underneath you.

There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

I've always been attracted to the underworld.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

It's true that my stories seem to deal with the end of the world. I've often been called the high priest of gothic miserablism, which is slightly unfair.

The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell.

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to find. Jane Austen was made of strong stuff. She was too satiric for D. H. Lawrence's taste and too unforgiving for Kingsley Amis's, but you would still not call her hellish.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

Hope is the light, trusted guide in darkness.

The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured

In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life.

Wisdom and understanding is the power to bring light to darkness

As soon as you approach the light, the darkness shall fade.

Ignorance is the master key of all evils.

Evil is of the devil.

I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?.