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Quotes About Darkness

The sun set without pomp—it just got dark.
~ Unknown
Na aldeia, o dia inteiro fica escuro, disse ele. Não amanhece e nem anoitece. Não há um alvorecer e nem um entardecer. O crepúsculo está no rosto das pessoas.
~ Herta Muller
A cidade está impregnada de vazio. Um carro atropela meus olhos com suas luzes. O condutor foge, pois é difícil me ver na escuridão.
~ Herta Muller
Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.
~ Hideaki Anno
Night changed the streets. It dressed them in the mourning clothes named darkness, and applied the makeup called mystery.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
The only things that merited reflection in the gorgeous young man's eyes were death and destruction—and those alone.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
The moon, as if disgraced, trails rags of black cloud.
~ Hilary Mantel
Slicing the cranium of her husband, the Marquis of Exeter, and stirring a forefinger in the murk of his intentions.
~ Hilary Mantel
Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?" "Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over.
~ Hilary McKay
And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
~ Hillary Clinton
Too much light would mean danger, but if it were too dark, I would not be able to make sure that the person I was meeting was really Major Taniguchi.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes
~ Unknown
Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put in out.
~ Unknown
All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no serenades, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.
~ Unknown
All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.
~ Unknown
Världen är inte god för dem som älska. Och in i mörkret bär det ju alltid till sist, för dem och för oss alla.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.
~ Holly Black
Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
~ Holly Black
There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.
~ Holly Black
I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.
~ Holly Black
Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag's carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst.
~ Holly Black
My sister thinks that she's the only one who can take poison, but I am poison,' he whispers, eyes half-closed, talking to himself. 'Poison in my blood. I poison everything I touch.
~ Holly Black
I like all the things that make you monstrous.
~ Holly Black