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Quotes About Darkness

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I am always filled with melancholy. It's as if I see everything black. Everything wounds me deeply.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
At night the jackals came and ate their feet, and the next morning crows flew down and ate their eyes.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
It was being convulsed by a cry, a command to break our prison bars of morality, shame, and hope, and turn ourselves over to, lose ourselves in, become one with, the fearful, enticing Lover who lies in wait in the darkness and whom we call God. I felt that love, death, and God were one and the same. As the years went by, I became even more deeply aware of this terrifying Trinity that waits in ambush in the abyss of chaos - in the abyss and in our hearts.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
It was like an invisible fire that we could feel, that had been trying to pierce through our mutual darkness. It struck me that each of us is a darkness for the other. Three days or three years don't make a difference unless we can catch hold of a burning moment in the darkness, knowing full well that it won't last and after it is extinguished we will slide back into our own chilling solitude.
~ Nirmal Verma
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
~ Nora Roberts
She's the light. Before, you can fumble around in the dark or manage in the dim. You don't even know it's dim because that's the way it's always been. But then, she's the light. Everything changes. If the light shuts off, or worse, you're stupid enough to shut it off yourself, it's a hell of a lot darker than before.
~ Nora Roberts
Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.
~ Nora Roberts
And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. —John 1:5
~ Nora Roberts
If the worlds were as we wish, the light would be only for joy and beauty, for healing and help. But the worlds are not what we wish. So we use the light to protect and shield, to fight the dark, even kill.
~ Nora Roberts
Åžtiu. Da, aÅŸa este. Ea este lumina. Înainte, poÅ£i s? umbli prin întuneric sau s? te descurci în lumina slab?. Nici m?car nu ÅŸtii c?-i slab?, pentru c? aÅŸa a fost mereu. Dar apoi, ea e lumina. Totul se schimb?. - Dac? lumina se stinge sau, mai r?u, dac? eÅŸti destul de prost încât s? o stingi singur, este cu mult mai întuneric decât era înainte.
~ Nora Roberts
If you walked through the woods alone, in the dark, and didn't have some sense of wonder, it was hardly worth the trip.
~ Nora Roberts
clear tonight.
~ Nora Roberts
Her doctor called it depression, but Naomi knew that as bad as depression could be, the dark times were worse. In the dark times her mother took too many pills.
~ Nora Roberts
Safe and sound through all the night. All you are and all you see hold you through dark into light.
~ Nora Roberts
through all the night. All you are and all you see hold you through dark into light.
~ Nora Roberts
Light defeats the dark. Fire purifies. And blood is at the heart of all.
~ Nora Roberts
However long it took, light would beat back the dark.
~ Nora Roberts
All the nightmares that had ever plagued a woman alone in the dark loomed in her mind.
~ Nora Roberts
When the moon wanes, the darkness eats it. Bite by bite.
~ Nora Roberts
You have to think of the positive, of the light, or the dark takes over.
~ Nora Roberts
To make the Savior is your fate. Life out of death, light out of dark. To save the Savior is your fate. Life out of death, light out of dark.
~ Nora Roberts
Poe, football star who had had scouts sniffing around him. Tough faced, tough bodied. He'd been the one to push a plate of spaghetti to her when she and Max had found the house in the snowy dark.
~ Nora Roberts