Quotes About Darkness

More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.

Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings.

That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires:

said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way." Ã¢â'¬â"¢* May that Almighty Hand guide and uphold us all.57

Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.

Yet if she did not quite exist in the full flood of sunlight, which is the hackneyed metaphor for good health, she was comfortably and safely far away from that abyssal darkness down into which she had nearly strayed.

real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring." Beyond

Remember. Oh, remember. How remember moments of forgotten time? Where is the way now (she wondered) through that dark up-spreading wood? Leaf, locust, sunlight in the hollow, all those she had known, all had fled like years. Now silence sounds where no light falls, and she has lost the way.

In my career as a writer I have always been attracted to morbid themes—suicide, rape, murder, military life, marriage, slavery.

absolute evil paralyzes absolutely. In

la negra noche del alma humana cuando millones de inocentes sufrían y morían bajo la dominación nazi.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Ché la diritta via era smarrita. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, For I had lost the right path.

That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehow–somehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then.

Sir Hugh squeezed her arm so often that Demelza began to wonder if the show was all a pretext for being with her in dark and drafty places. In one room, where the wind was so high that they might have been out of doors, the rear lantern went out and Sir Hugh put his short, thick arm around her waist. But she slipped away with a faint rustle of silk and moved quickly up to Ross. The stables were the best-

Ross si avvicinò alla porta, vi appoggiò contro una mano. Gli occhi di lei adesso erano quasi asciutti e straordinariamente scuri.

Three airborne divisions were to be delivered safely and in darkness on to their objectives, together with a number of special parties to stir and encourage the seething Resistance Movement.

El cielo está en todas partes, incluso en la oscuridad bajo la piel. Me alimento de cielo, evacuo cielo. Soy una trampa en la trampa, un habitante habitado, un brazo abrazado, una pregunta en respuesta a una pregunta.

Ju? si? ?ciemnia?o, ju? prawie by?o ciemno. I wilgotno. Gdzie Fryderyk?

En la mitad del camino de mi vida me encontré en una selva oscura... Y algo peor aún: aquella selva era verde.

Dieses Leben? Nein, dieses Leben ist weniger als Nichts. Ich mach nicht mehr mit, du. Was sagst du? Vorwärts, Kameraden, das Stück wird selbstverständlich brav bis zu Ende gespielt. Wer weiß, in welcher finsteren Ecke wir liegen oder an welcher süßen Brust, wenn der Vorhang endlich, endlich fällt. Fünf graue verregnete Akte!

BECKMANN: Ich soll leben, sagst du! Dieses Leben leben? Dann sag mir auch: Wozu? Für Wen? Für was? DER ANDERE: Für dich! Für das Leben! Deine Straße wartet. Und hin und wieder kommen Laternen. Bist du so feige, daß du Angst hast vor der Finsternis zwischen zwei Laternen? Willst du nur Laternen haben? Komm, Beckmann, weiter, bis zur nächsten Laterne.

Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.