Quotes About Darkness

All night while the rain fell the dark valley heard in silence the silent valley did not remember you were asleep beside me while the rain fell all around us I listened to you breathing I wanted to remember the sound of your breath but we lay there forgetting asleep and awake forgetting a breath at a time while the rain went on falling around us. — W.S. Merwin, from "The Sound of Forgetting," Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)

Looking East at Night" Death White hand The moths fly at in the darkness I took you for the moon rising Whose light then do you reflect As though it came out of the roots of things This harvest pallor in which I have no shadow but myself

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

Death is a master from Germany.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

I see black light (his last words)

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.