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Quotes About Darkness

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Once a star dies, it's gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.
~ Gillian Flynn
We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.
~ W. S. Merwin
Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us.
~ Kathe Koja
When I use the word 'Satan,' it doesn't stand for a guy with horns. To me, that word means the powers of the unknown, the powers of darkness.
~ King Diamond
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
~ Brennan Manning
Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.
~ Luanne Rice, Firefly Beach
The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.
~ A.D. Posey
If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkness of the storm determines the brightness of the rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars cannot achieve their highest potential without the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light does not have to beg darkness to shine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love's light conquers hate's darkness.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There was enough ice.So I thought. For my drink.When I used it all, I cut her heart out and used it instead.I never ran out of ice that night.
~ Mrinaal
A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil
~ Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There's no night without stars.
~ Andre Norton
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
~ Pierre Corneille
David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.
~ Steve Erickson