Quotes About Darkness

All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence .

Teenagers, flooded with destabilizing hormones and a longing for elsewhere, are particularly prone to the seductive power of dark narratives.

The sky has grown completely black, It's time to think of turning back. Fall down, or scream, or rush about- There is no way of getting out.

If they made a film of my inner life, it would be more than the public could take. Mothers would scream, Bring back The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so we can have some decent family entertainment!

forced to observe the fringes of unconsciousness and make darkness visible;

You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn't the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure to get back to their own prisons by nightfall. That's home. That's what they are used to.

Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played the chilly city, and those who hadn't seen him for that period, or even longer, were shocked at the change in his appearance. The once handsome, animated, brilliant performer and commentator was now a fat, bent, shabby-looking street loafer, a horribly dissipated, baggy-eyed, numb-fleshed junkie, with a tragic darkness in his eyes.

The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of bringing light to the colonized's ignominious darkness.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

A mi noche no la mata ningún sol.

All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue. I sing a song of mourning. Black birds over black shrouds. My brain cries.

night opens I enter night shuts I don't leave

the wine the sadness and the night

The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

Me alimento de música y de agua negra. Soy tu niña calcinada por un sueño implacable.

una muchacha en llamas al borde de la noche.

Soy tu silencio, tu tragedia, tu veladora. Puesto que sólo soy noche, puesto que toda noche de mi vida es tuya.

me he empavorecido, me he engrisado, me he atardecido, mi lengua no sabe.

La noche, de nuevo la noche, la magistral sapiencia de lo oscuro, el cálido roce de la muerte, un instante de éxtasis para mí, heredera de todo jardín prohibido.

If I am anything, I'm cruelty.

Because madness is a lie too. Like night. Like death.

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