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Quotes About Darkness

The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.
~ Unknown
En toch dwaalde ze al die tijd in gedachten door de kathedralen van het bos, in die nog altijd witte wereld waar de uilen krasten in het donker en een vriend op sterven lag.
~ Unknown
The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:
~ Unknown
the French and Spanish fleets were moving hurriedly to form a line of battle in the dark.
~ Unknown
The manoeuvre was difficult at the best of times. In the dark, it was almost impossible.
~ Unknown
If the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
~ Unknown
Annie looked into his eyes with their blood-crazed whites and for the first time in her life knew how one might come to believe in the devil.
~ Nicholas Evans
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...
~ Unknown
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new....
~ Unknown
By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again...
~ Unknown
There will always be a war between light and darkness, between science and superstition, between education and ignorance. Ignorance is easier. It requires no study. Faith is the enemy of thought.
~ Nicholas Meyer
Hamlet got a gun now.
~ Nick Cave
Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don't let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don't let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!
~ Nick Cave
A grate wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. Wast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a grate tidal wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavigne's vagina.
~ Nick Cave
A great wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. vast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a great tidal wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavigne's vagina.
~ Nick Cave
A grate wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. Wast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a grate tilde wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavignes vagina.
~ Nick Cave
The arc of history is long, but it bends towards zombie apocalypse.
~ Unknown
You scrape away your face and step into the dark...
~ Unknown
God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light! Light that dazzles and maddens; crisp, ruthless light. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die? Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth? Where is the new darkness? The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us?
~ Unknown
We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.
~ Nick Sagan
Cell 14-D, in the infamous Hole, is said to be always colder than the other D Block cells, even when the weather is warm. Stories have been told of a prisoner locked in 14-D who screamed all night long. He said that a creature with glowing red eyes was trying to kill him. The next morning, he was found dead.
~ Unknown
The troll lives in his bones and walks abroad wearing his skin, even under the sun.
~ Nicola Griffith
The dark was many things: the cold, the alien world, the virus, her own fear.
~ Nicola Griffith
Even in the moonlight you'll glitter like barrow wights. They'll see you coming from a mile away.
~ Nicola Griffith