Quotes About Darkness

She paused for a moment. "Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy—angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.

Pretutindeni aceleaÅŸi strig?te de spaim? ÅŸi aceeaÅŸi harababur?, aceeaÅŸi goan? neagr? ÅŸi greoaie pe str?zile unde lumina îÅ£i ia ochii, pfiu! Str?zile astea pustii, aerul care tremur? ÅŸi soarele ?sta... Exist? ceva mai sinistru ca soarele?

black, like the circle, did not exist.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

Actors and burglars work better at night.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

I think, as I get older, I appreciate how great 'Empire Strikes Back is.' You know, because you realize, man, that is a dark movie and it ends on such a dark note.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.