Quotes About Darkness

The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.

That place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. It's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. It's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it. You're a woman who can travel that far.

I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

she said things I already knew but needed to hear again. How in darkness, we are waiting. How it is in the times that we must search hardest for the light that we are most profoundly transformed.

Why does it feel like night today? Something in the air's not right today Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left

The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems.

His father's funeral was a memory of darkness and mourning. He remembered sitting between his mother and his Uncle Keith on the bench in the church. They'd brought in the preacher from Friendly, California, Reverend Forbes; a skinny, stick of a man with wavy hair and wild eyes. He'd glared at them from the front of the church as if they'd all been caught masturbating in a closet, not like a man of God who was troubled over the loss of a fallen comrade.

Reverend Forbes did not talk about Jonathan Carlson at all. He railed against sinners everywhere, the tone of his voice showing clearly that he felt that everything beyond his own church in Friendly became steadily more evil, and that Satan's blood dripped down the sides of the mountain, infecting all of those below with his darkness.

He looked out at the dark of night seeking rumors of the moon.

Later, Jim thought of the bus the same way he thought of a Harlem whore. Everything is so easy until you step into that dark hallway, and bang.

This is not a nice vampire, Claire. It feeds people to its pets." "Well, you know how monsters are." Grinning.

Dark is dark in the darkness.

DEDICATION "To The Creator, who gives us the Light by which we more clearly see the Darkness…

E quando amanhece, não é o dia que nasce no horizonte, é a noite que se recolhe no fundo do vale

Darkness turned on her pillow white; A star serenely shone; Deeply, deeply into the night Cut the sword of dawn. Over the snow the pale east threw Abroach where daylight broke, Crimson stains on the abbey panes Above the hamlet smoke...

[M]y theory... there was a crack in Pansay's head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death.

...there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...

Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Day is a solar cathedral, night a starry sanctuary.

War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable.

Tonight's forecast: dark. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to widely scattered light in the morning.

When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys away; When short and scant the sun-beam throws Upon the weary waste of snows...

The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.... the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them.