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Quotes About Darkness

But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet ..Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
~ John Keats
Upon the honey'd middle of the night
~ John Keats
Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green, There is a budding morrow in midnight, There is a triple sight in blindness keen;
~ John Keats
Save me from curious conscience, that still hoards Its strength for darkness, burrowing like the mole; Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed casket of my soul.
~ John Keats
De modo que aquí estoy, sentado en este tren. Fuera sigue estando oscuro sin más luz que la de los anuncios de neón que aparecen a veces. El traqueteo sobre los raíles es cada vez más rápido, y puedo ver que ahora los árboles cruzan velozmente la luna. Los años que me quedaban antes de ir a la escuela pasaron con tanta rapidez como ahora pasan esos árboles ante la luna.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
An Example from Recent History Before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler began to preach the doctrine of the Aryan "super race." This gospel of Aryan superiority enabled world rulers of this present darkness to move that corporate stronghold over the German mentality. Whoever among the German nation
~ Unknown
October, not April, would be the cruelest month.
~ John M. Barry
My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.
~ Tyga
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
~ Robert Quine
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
~ Carl Jung
A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.
~ Susan Piver
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.
~ Daniel Goldin
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
~ Carl Jung
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
~ Terri Windling
The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil
~ Tatsumi Hijikata
I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.
~ Alexander Ludwig
In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.
~ Cassandra Clare
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
~ Barbara Johnson
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
~ Mother Teresa
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre
faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.
~ Joan D. Chittister
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
~ William Blake