Quotes About Darkness

His empty heart is full at length, But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

I just woke up by the side of the road in the dark like I'd been dumped there by the Mafia, but you take your time explaining, that's fine with me.

Kermit, the voice in my head wants me to take you out in the woods and eat your liver,

I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing our private lives;The unmentionable odor of deathOffends the September night.

In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark.

Gu- means darkness and ru- means light. A guru is one who dispels spiritual darkness and gives light to the disciple (called a chela or sishya, for which the Punjabi equivalent is 'Sikh').

We keep asking where they have gone those years we remember and we reach for them like hands in the night

I see us as the dark and the light. Two sides of the same thing. You are bright and shining and I am a thing of shadows." "I will be your white horse and you can be my black," I murmured and held him closer.

Because all dark, like those that are all light, They are cast beyond the verge, and in a cloud, Crying to one another like the bats; And having no desire they cannot tell What's good or bad, or what it is to triumph At the perfection of one's own obedience; And yet they speak what's blown into the mind; Deformed beyond deformity, unformed, Insipid as the dough before it is baked, They change their bodies at a word.

And yet the wise are of opinion that wherever man is, the dark powers who would feed his rapacities are there too, no less than the bright beings who store their honey in the cells of his heart, and the twilight beings who flit hither and thither, and that they encompass him with a passionate and melancholy multitude.

Never leave the door open at this hour, or evil may come to you.

What's left to sigh for, Strange night has come

Go your ways, O go your ways I choose another mark, Girls down on the seashore Who understand the dark

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

Were all stars to disappear and die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. —W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate; Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

Now, more than ever, we distinctly hear The dreadful shuffle of a murderous year And all our senses roaring as the Black Dog leaps upon the individual back.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

A critter reveals his true self at midnight.

El único fracaso verdadero es aquel en que la víctima se queda sin brío, aturdida, abatida, rodeada de oscuridad y, en su interior, un cuchillo le corta lenta e implacablemente las cuerdas del corazón.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

we know from the beginning that the darkness is beyond us there is no explaining the dark it is only the light that we keep feeling a need to account for