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Quotes About Darkness

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.
~ Tim Burton
He said many people believe in God only because of the selfish reward of eternal life …" Another blew his nose. "So in order for our faith to be pure, we have to stop believing in God." "What!" "Only temporarily—just long enough to imagine eternal darkness …" "… Then, once we could handle that, we were free to return and believe selflessly." "… My belief's never been stronger.
~ Tim Dorsey
I'm basically nocturnal.
~ B. D. Wong
I love noir, quite obviously.
~ Laura van den Berg
I grew up on film noir.
~ Lynne Ramsay
You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'
~ Lesley Sharp
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.
~ Lydia Hearst
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
~ Rod Serling
We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.
~ Jessie Buckley
Everybody's darkness is different. My darkness came from my mom having pancreatitis and almost dyin'. And what I noticed was that the darkness ain't goin' nowhere.
~ Tech N9ne
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
~ Karin Slaughter
Hardship makes the world obscure.
~ Don DeLillo
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
~ Victor LaValle
Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
~ James Nesbitt
Hey, there's a place in the darkness. You know what I mean? I think I met you there. I knew you there.
~ Norman Mailer
The air held the sweet night like a sponge.
~ Norman Partridge
In my window night invents another night
~ Octavio Paz
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
~ Og Mandino
again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
~ Og Mandino
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet i will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars
~ Og Mandino
Nothing can bring the hurt of loneliness upon a man so swiftly as to pass a strange house in the dark and witness, in the lamplight from within, a family breaking evening bread together.
~ Og Mandino
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
~ Ohran Pamuk
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.
~ Olaf Stapledon