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Quotes About Darkness

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
~ Hugo Chavez
We are a race prone to monsters ... and when we produce one we worship it.
~ Iain M. Banks
The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.
~ Iain Sinclair
I stared so long that I got to seeing them as being dark, ugly sins in my body, smelling and dirty, but my touch face showed that I didn't give a damn. I was the toughest person in the whole world. And then inside the outline of my body a devil's face slowly took shape. It came to my chest, a dark, ugly thing with big lips that looked hot around yellow pointed teeth, eyeing me in a friednly way, as though it had been feeding on what was inside me and was trying to show how pleased it was.
~ Unknown
Horror is what happens when evil overtakes the heart
~ Unknown
Escape, son, may not be the way," says Mr. Spider. "It would be reassuring if everything was finally reducible to Light versus Darkness, Order versus Chaos, Good versus Evil. However, life is not pulp fantasy. If the Way were easy, what virtue would there be in following it? The teaching of the Daishi is that the Way does not lie in escape, or even in defeating.
~ Unknown
A low, bubbling moan of prehuman fear. Then, one birth-strong heave pushed her through, and she was tumbling headfirst into the welcoming darkness.
~ Unknown
You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.
~ Unknown
Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.
~ Unknown
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
~ Ian Mcewan
No colour comes after black.
~ Idries Shah
Ningún color viene después del negro.
~ Idries Shah
Si está lo suficientemente oscuro, una vela es suficiente.
~ Idries Shah
Por alguna misteriosa razón los humanos nos refugiamos en aquello que más peligro nos significa, como los niños que temen la oscuridad pero juegan a hacer equilibrios en el barandal del balcón. ¿No es horrible darse cuenta de que aquello que más se teme es en el fondo lo que más se desea?
~ Unknown
Hearing a crow with no mouth Cry in the deep Darkness of the night, I feel a longing for My father before he was born.
~ Ikkyu
sometimes all I am is dark emptiness I can't hide in the sleeves of my own robes
~ Ikkyu
night after night after night stay up all night nothing but your own night
~ Ikkyu
In the darkness, even love will become hate
~ Unknown
Life without love Is as night without day
~ Ilchi Lee
You're riding a runaway train into a tunnel that leads into a station where there's a welcome-home party from all your worst nightmares
~ Colin Meloy
Even in darkness, light dawns for the upright.' That is you now. Let your light shine here in Rock Harbor.
~ Colleen Coble
He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
~ Unknown
The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.
~ Colson Whitehead
Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.
~ Colum McCann