Quotes About Darkness

Night lies beside me Chaste and cold as a sharp sword. It and I alone.

With a single candle, night burns into infinity.

And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.

Night — the quiet of solitude — the silence of loneliness

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

A rose in sunlight is nature. A rose in the dark is poetry.

If it is dark, all men are black.

What hath night to do with sleep?

That was where friendships were smelted from unrefined ore into pure metal: two girls staying up past their bedtime, painting one another's nails, trying on one another's clothes, wondering about ghosts, confiding secrets, swapping tokens of undying affection, hours of whispering in the darkness.

Ein Wort Ein Wort, ein Satz -: aus Chiffren steigen erkanntes Leben, jäher Sinn, die Sonne steht, die Sphären schweigen, und alles ballt sich zu ihm hin. Ein Wort - ein Glanz, ein Flug, ein Feuer, ein Flammenwurf, ein Sternenstrich - und wieder Dunkel, ungeheuer, im leeren Raum um Welt und Ich.

The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one's life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It's a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkness, or in the light of one's self-truth. It doesn't promise stepping into the light will be easy, but it does imply a fundamentally altered human experience.

Entrava dia e saía dia. As noites cobriam a terra de chofre. A tampa anilada baixava, escurecia, quebrada apenas pelas vermelhidões do poente.

For the rest of her life, she lives in a low, dark house of white stone. It has a wide tiled roof and a hawthorn bush to ward off lightning. Outdoors, she wears a full green flannel skirt and a pointy hood. She is more prolific than the fields, which produce a crop of barley or rye only once every two years.

effects of her husband's lovemaking, but only one reliable method exists, and anyone who has come home after dark on the back road by the pond has heard the sad croaking of the Night Washerwomen who are condemned to wash the shrouds and corpses of the children that they killed.

The child, ravaged by wolves, falls quiet in the forest, and the long darkness is filled with an undisturbed silence.

People are in the dark, they don't know what to do I had a little lantern, oh but it got blown out too. I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

A sötétben veled Az emberek a sötétben mihez kezdenek Volt egy kis lámpásom, de az is elveszett Kinyújtom a kezem, hátha te is azt teszed Együtt akarok lenni a sötétben veled.

People are in the dark, they don't know what to do Had a little lantern oh but it got blown out too I'm reachin out my hands. I know you are too Cuz I just want to be in the dark with you

There is a prison," Alfred began grimly, "in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from that darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back.

You think darkness is your ally," Bane said. "But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Formed by it…

The shadows betray you, because they belong to me…

The campsite was like a pinprick of awareness, poised between fading memories and the unknown future—and if daybreak and the journey home would reclaim some of what the darkness now shrouded, that reprieve itself was only temporary.