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Quotes About Darkness

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
~ Octave Mirbeau
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.
~ James Allen
Love is the only angel, who can bid the gates unroll, and when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast, his way mat lie through darkness, but leads to light at last.
~ John Donne
From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on the -- Bright side of the road
~ Van Morrison
All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is just the sun in the sky. And the hope of a summer to come with the meaning of love.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
~ Richard Bach
I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
~ Stephanie Perkins
Chills stood the hair on the back of his neck on end as he thought of being stuck down in the cavern, forever.
~ Mary Connealy
Territory June 23, 1866 Last time. This is it. Never again. Rafe Kincaid pulled his chestnut thoroughbred to a halt in full darkness, still a short distance away from the entrance of the cavern. He rubbed the ugly, jagged
~ Mary Connealy
make sense out of what he couldn't see. "Help me." Definitely a woman. "I'll get you out." "Don't leave me, please." Her voice broke. Her arms clamped around him as if she were hanging on to save her life. In her mind, she probably was. He wrapped his arms around her. In the dark he couldn't see anything. She seemed young. She'd come at him fast. But someone older, running
~ Mary Connealy
It can trick a man into thinking only dark thoughts. It can trick a man into making some small thing into something large without the light of day to shine on his worries.
~ Mary Connealy
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
~ Mary Doria Russell
There's a saying in Hebrew, 'No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS
~ Mary Downing Hahn
Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I left and went to the roof, where it was only me, a thousand blinking stars, and the beauty of darkness stretched to the ends of the universe, snuffing out the endless games of courts and kingdoms.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.
~ Mary E. Pearson
it was only me, a thousand blinking stars, and the beauty of darkness stretched to the ends of the universe, snuffing out the endless games of courts and kingdoms.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
~ Mary E. Pearson
White There was a moment in the darkness when the fear lifted. A moment where white surrounded me. Hope. Lily, and someone else, and a sprinkling of water. "Holy water, Jenna." "You can let go if you need to." "Forgiveness, Jenna." But I couldn't let go. It wasn't in my power. I was already swirling, flying, falling. To someplace deep I didn't understand. Where all the sounds buy my own voice disappeared. Only me. For so long. I don't want to be alone anymore. (120)
~ Mary E. Pearson
Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight. It had always been my refuge, my place of escape, whether I was sneaking onto a rooftop lit only by the stars or down a midnight alley to be with my brothers. Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.
~ Mary E. Pearson
She was radiant, her cheeks glowing with heat, her long locks shimmering in the lantern light like golden marmalade, swinging in rhythm with the zitaraes and flutes. I wished I could be her sometimes, jumping into every moment fully, her cheer covering the darkness that still lurked deep inside her.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The room closed in, dark and black and far from everything I had ever known. I felt like a child again, wishing I could curl into my mother's arms on a stormy night and she could whisper away my fears. The wind punched and thrashed against the shutters, unforgiving, and I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness away. How quaint. How very quaint. Like believing some things last forever. A tear. As if that could make a difference.
~ Mary E. Pearson