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Quotes About Darkness

One thing that comes out in myths, for example, is at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
~ Joseph Campbell
Myths inspire the realization of the possibility of your perfection, the fullness of your strength, and the bringing of solar light into the world. Slaying monsters is slaying the dark things. Myths grab you somewhere down inside.
~ Joseph Campbell
And so it happens that if anyone…undertakes for himself the perilous journey into the darkness by descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of his own spiritual labyrinth, he soon finds himself in a landscape of symbolical figures (any one of which may swallow him).
~ Joseph Campbell
And fire and ice within me fightBeneath the suffocating night.
~ A. E. Housman
In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.
~ A. E. Housman
We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
~ A. E. Housman
In all likelihood, the nightwatch, not prostitution, is the world's most ancient profession, originating as soon as men and women first feared the darkness.
~ A. Roger Ekirch
Her strong enchantments failing, Her towers of fear in wreck, Her limbecks dried of poisons And the knife at her neck, The Queen of air and darkness Begins to shrill and cry, `O young man, O my slayer To-morrow you shall die.' O Queen of air and darkness I think 'tis truth you say, And I shall die to-morrow; But you shall die to-day.
~ A.E. Houseman
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
~ A.E. Housman
Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?
~ A.P.
She is afraid of depression. It skulks around her house like a shadow: a giant, slow and remorseless. It will be like leaving the door wide-open if she keeps on like this, messing up her routines. So all the giant has to do is crouch down, step inside and get her.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles? It
~ Éliphas Lévi
All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
~ Éliphas Lévi
È lì, accanto al letto , sul tappeto. Ha una scure piantata nella testa. Vuole visitarlo? Sì, lo visiti pure. Un incidente davvero stupido, non trova? È caduto dal letto nel sonno, ed è caduto su quella scure.
~ Ágota Kristóf
Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn." "That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
And in a sunless realm, the sun rose at last.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
~ Aaron Hill
Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.
~ Aaron Shepard
Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice.
~ Aaron Starmer
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Don't fear the dark places in your mind, otherwise rage will blacken your sight.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
~ Abraham Kuyper
"The sun," said Mr. Bull, "never sets on English dominion. Do you understand how that is?" "oh, yes" said the Indian, "that is because God is afraid to trust them in the dark."
~ Abraham Lincoln