Quotes About Darkness

The electric light in the classroom, contrasting with the immensity of the darkness outside, gave us an atavistic sentiment of intimacy, of shelter, such as primitive man must have experienced in his cave. The world became small, and it was easy to be alive. I recall that it was during one of those evenings that I had my first hallucination, about which there isn't a lot to say and nor can I find an explanation for.

Cumplit era c?, dup? cum mergeau vorbele, vechiul refugiu al celor asediaÈ›i de r?u: divinitatea, binele È™i viaÈ›a moral?, se aliase pentru întâia oar? cu tenebrele, pentru a-nf??ura lumea în inextricabila pânz? de p?ianjen a nici binelui, nici r?ului, nici extazului, nici groazei, nici a tuturor laolalt?, nici a vidurilor, ci a Altceva, ceva inuman, nediavolesc È™i nedivin, de neperceput cu mintea È™i de neatins cu degetele.

Si, ca intotdeauna, paradisul mi s-a parut o ratacire la fel de teribila ca si infernul. Niciodata nu le opusesem unul altuia, dimpotriva, stiusem mereu ca infernul si paradisul erau aliate si luptau impreuna pentru distrugerea fiintei, tara torturii si tara placerii fiind invecinate in regiunile de jos ale mintii, asemenea zonei intunecate, ano-genitale, de sub labirintul intestinal.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

Svi smo mi nesretni i treba da se toleriramo! Svi smo mi promašeni i svi smo promašili. Samljeveni smo kao izme?u dva žrvnja... Pa zašto da sa krvavim prstima stupimo u tminu? Skomraka ?e isto tako jesti crvi kao i mene i tebe! Pa bi bilo glavno da poživimo tu gdje jesmo, kako najbolje znamo...

Filip ima potrebu da oslijepi da ogluši da se pretvori sav u gluhonijemu zrakopraznu tminu a ovdje je tako mra?no tako zagušljivo tako sitno kao u kakvoj kutiji sve je zalijepljeno tim kretenskim slikama tim hengelampama tako nisko da bi ?ovjek mogao glavom da probije krov tu nema zraka tu se ne može disati tu samo ?ovjeku srce bije u laktovima pa to je sve nesnosno hermeti?ki zalijepljeno

But the boy protected Yorda from the shadows-that-walk-alone. He took her hand, defended her, swung his thin arm, and fought with his tiny frame, driving them back. If the shades dragged her into their realm, she would once again become a prisoner, and the boy would turn to stone, a sad adornment in the castle. Yorda knew this. But the boy did not--even as he did not know that Yorda was the property of the queen of the castle--and he protected her.

If men were reduced to sacrificing other men to appease the darkness, the Dark god's reign had already begun.

One of the girls saw her, then did a double-take. Her eyes sparkled. Not a bright sparkle, but a dull, dark sparkle, like the twinkling of a lantern at the bottom of a deep well. Here's something fun, her eyes said. Here's something freakish. Let's play with it and see if we can make it cry.

The darkness here hadn't randomly happened; it had been created and cultivated.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Mary thought how strange it was to think that only a few inches of wall separated the placid cosiness of the sittingroom from the howling, streaming darkness. Houses were very defiant things.

Hij bleef zoals hij is, zwart en stil en besprenkeld met sterren.

Aren't personal crises, loss, sadness, and periods of emotional darkness just part of human nature? Absolutely!

As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering its story to him out of the darkness in snatches, in a huge confessional where he could not see the faces…

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the words are empty - dry gourds rattling in the silence. The dark is terrible and I feel so alone. I see no signs but the symbols of contradiction. I try to dispose myself to faith, hope and charity, but my will is a blown reed in the winds of despair.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

Doug Winter wrote in his 1982 anthology Prime Evil

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

good and bad!!..we always get mixed with the real truths and paths concerning this two with fanaticism and hypocrisy. till darkness envelopes and you awaken to the father to learn about the real truths. but I pray ye to desire to be with his flock or face condemnation....just do what thou wilt ,conscience and his laws being your compass!!

If I ever become a Saint I surely be one of "darkness". I will continually be absent from Heaven to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

The word which appeared as a pillar of flame out of the darkness is the Son of God, born of the mystery of the Mind. The name of the Word is Reason. Reason is the offspring of Thought

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.