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Quotes About Darkness

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.
~ David Wojnarowicz
When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do.
~ David Wojnarowicz
Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.
~ David Wong
Fred said, "Man, I think he's gonna make a fuckin' suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us." "Holy crap," said John. "He'll be gorgeous.
~ David Wong
You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.
~ David Wong
They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.
~ David Wong
Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side.
~ David Wong
Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I know. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives A Fuck.
~ David Wong
Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.
~ David Wong
the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.
~ David Wong
evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.
~ David Zindell
Davey Jones: Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?
~ Davy Jones
I was so blue that I felt I'd turned black inside.
~ Dawn French
hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness
~ Dazai Osamu
Always remember that night is the absence of light rather than the presence of darkness
~ Dean Cavanagh
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
~ Dean Koontz
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.
~ Dean Koontz
Everyone has a capacity for cruelty. Not everyone gets the chance to exercise it.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Everyone knows the Devil takes care of his own.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Bavaria, September 1889 You must not go into the forest at night," the innkeeper warned, his voice trembling with fear. "Something dangerous walks there in the darkness." He carried on in this vein for some time as I applied myself to a stein of Weissbier
~ Deanna Raybourn
Have you ever turned over a stone just to watch the nasty things wriggling underneath?" "I think every child has." His mouth thinned into a cruel smile. "I am no longer a child. There's a baser word for what I like to do. Let us simply say that kicking over this particular stone amuses me." "Then let us hope you do not get stung.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Gogh. The Woman in the Wood. Caravaggio. The Gorgon Tisiphone. Bruegel. The Plague Doctor.
~ Deanna Raybourn
The days are very alike here, the hours of darkness long and bleak, and I am a stranger to myself.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Anubis. Destructive and demoralizing, but not malevolent.
~ Deanna Raybourn