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Quotes About Darkness

What you fought was a dead man, possessed by a disease.' - Setrakian 'What--like a pinche zombie?' - Gus 'Think more along the lines of a man with a black cape. Fangs. Funny accent. Now take away the cape and fangs. The funny accent. Take away anything funny about it.' - Setrakian
~ Guillermo del Toro
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…
~ Guillermo del Toro
Rod Serling once observed, "The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The only piece of home Ofelia had been able to take with her were some of her books. She closed her fingers firmly around the one on her lap, caressing the cover. When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.
~ Guillermo del Toro
En ausencia de la luz prevalece la oscuridad
~ Guillermo del Toro
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness … The
~ Guillermo del Toro
Vivían atormentados. Carentes de todo salvo de obscuridad. Demasiado tarde, ¿era demasiado tarde para ver la luz?
~ Guillermo del Toro
Il male si presenta sempre in qualche forma familiare.
~ Guillermo del Toro
In the dark, I heard your voice. What did you say? I said, "Hey, you on the other side, let her go. Because for her… for her I'll cross over. And then you'll be sorry.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Setrakian said, "Think more along the lines of a man with a black cape. Fangs. Funny accent." He turned his head so that Gus could hear him better. "Now take away the cape and fangs. The funny accent. Take away anything funny about it." Gus
~ Guillermo del Toro
A la luz del farolillo, cuya dudosa claridad se perdía entre las espesas sombras de
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
The light is dying, as all light must.
~ Guy Davenport
All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I think,' said Ammar ibn Khairan of Aljais, very slowly, 'that I should know you in a pitch black room. I think I would know you anywhere near me in the world.' He paused. 'Is that answer enough, Jehane? Or too much of one? Will you say?
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
He sometimes imagined them all, men and women, children, everyone in the world, sailing down the Sky River in the hugeness of the dark, surrounded by all the stars. Some tried to steer the ship. He had tried. But only the gods could do that, in the end.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Darkness gives way to morning's sunrise, Winter ends, there are flowers, birds fly. Honour the goddess, remember the gods. We are children of earth and sky.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
But what did one own if life, if love, could be taken away to darkness? Was it all not just ... a loan, a leasehold, transitory as candles?
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
In summer darkness, stars in her south-facing window, she makes - or accepts - a decision in her heart. There is fear again with it, and sorrow, but also a kind of easing of disquiet and distress, which is what acceptance is said to bring, is it not?
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Another breeze, entering the room. Dawn wind. He would be going home soon. He would sit with her, and look out upon the sea. Morning was coming, the god's return. Almost time to rise and go to prayer. The bed was very soft. Almost time, but the darkness had not quite lifted, light still to come, he could linger a little with memory. It was necessary, it was allowed. End it with the ending of a night.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Det finns mörker överallt just nu, svarade han. Vi kan inte undvika det, endast skingra det, och det blir inte lätt. I själva faran ligger kanhända vårt hopp om fri väg.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
SAM OWEN always fished by night.
~ Guy N. Smith
The dark hangs heavily Over the eyes.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks