Quotes About Darkness

However, as there is no end to the beauty that some can create, so there also is no end to the horrors that others

They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.

did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.

The only monsters were people.

The guy was lying on his back, mostly in shadow, with only the lower half of his body revealed in the dirty-red light, and at first Ken and Teel didn't realize what a horror they'd stumbled across. But when he knelt beside the corpse, Ken was shocked to see that the man's gut had been

Without a window between me and this absolute-black sky, the effect of such undetailed heavens was profound, frightening not just because of the uncanny darkness but also for a reason that eluded me. Or perhaps the reason was not elusive. Maybe I dreaded acknowledging and considering it, for fear that contemplation would soon sweep me out of the main currents of sanity, into a tributary of madness.

Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL

when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face.

piece of dark cloth draped over the

but as the dead

damned might call jealously to the living. Three more shots follow the first three.

The undulant road winds across hills, down into hollows where mist slithers through the darkness like a procession of spirits proceeding toward their fate. The mountains, worn low by millennia of weather, offer no steep palisades, only rolling slopes that suggest that the landscape was inspired by the female form.

the dead moon sheds cold light on the dark buildings that stand testament to the folly of the human race.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, which he painted in 1781.

where the moon and stars do not exist, where the sun will never rise, where the path is ever downward, yet he descends in a desperate search, for

beyond that image conjured by Poe's famous story, "The Premature Burial

Her stories are often dark but never spiral into nihilism.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts: the moonless midnight of our mind

A terrible darkness has fallen upon us, but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift lamps of courage and find our way through to the morning. —Anonymous member of the French Resistance (1943)

On Evil: There's too much darkness in some people, corruption that could never be cleaned out in five lifetimes of rehabilitation. Evil is real, it walks the earth. Sometimes the devil works by persuasion. Sometimes he just sets loose these sociopaths who don't have a gene for empathy or one for compassion.

The day in Pico Mundo when I lost Stormy will forever be the worst day of my life, although since then each place I go seems in one way or another to be darker than the place before it.

One of the three candles burned out, and darkness eagerly pulled its chair a little closer to the table.

bloodstream

he pours three types of blood into the hole—cat, rat, and human.