Quotes About Darkness

The infinite variety of human badness.

He thought of calling her again, if only to resupply himself with shame, but the purity of the hurt of losing her was of a piece with the season's dark afternoons and long nights.

one benefit of being a depressive pessimist, which is the propensity to laugh in dark times.

blow the sixty bucks on a movie on Shattuck, on a bucket of fake-buttered popcorn and a shoe-box-size carton of Whoppers or Junior Mints. Cradling the bucket or carton he'd slip into the darkness, washed over by the phantasms of some sex comedy played by American actors a quarter-century younger than himself, who were meant to be taken for adults. This would make it permissible to die. Desirable, even.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

He said, Let there be light. And there was darkness.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to often come. Unforgiving, unrelenting, bringing darkness upon darkness, the end of the world is something we have become well acquainted with, habitualized, made into a ritual. It is our religion to try to forget it in its absence, make peace with it when it is undeniable, and return its embrace when it finally comes for us, as it always does.

The apartment had never been darker. I turned on the lamp. It became bright around us. The apartment became darker.

Am stat cuibariti cateva momente, apoi ne-am intins amandoi pe spate si iarba era ca un pat. Pentru ca era asa de intuneric, puteam vedea multe dintre stele. Era ca si cand ne-am fi aflat sub o umbrela mare sau sub o rochie. Am vorbit multe minute despre multe lucruri, dar de fapt eu nu-l ascultam si nici el nu ma asculta, si eu nu ma ascultam pe mine, iar el nu se asculta pe sine. Ne aflam pe iarba, sub stele si asta este ceea ce faceam.

Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

Aprendí, muy pequeña que la vida tiene un lado oscuro, y que ése me había tocado a mi

Bana ayn? anda hem 800,000 kitab? hem de karanl??? veren Tanr?'n?n muhte?em ironisi

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself. I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

One of the habits of the mind is the invention of horrible imaginings. - The Total Library

Tasalanma, yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ artan körlük pek trajik deÄŸil. A??r bir yaz akÅŸam? gibi.

A volte penso che i buoni lettori siano cigni ancor più tenebrosi e rari dei buoni autori.

En la honda noche universal que apenas contradicen los faroles

Uno de los hábitos de la mente es la invención de imaginaciones horribles.

This City" (I thought) "is so horrible that its mere existence and perdurance, though in the midst of a secret desert, contaminates the past and the future and in some way even jeopardizes the stars. As long as it lasts, no one in the world can be strong or happy.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

And there is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unful-fillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

Die Mächte des Abgrunds sind nicht leicht zu bannen.