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Quotes About Darkness

In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.
~ Pliny the Younger
When the candles are out all women are fair.
~ Plutarch
Don't worry the trolls don't come to you. It's your own darkness that leads you to the trolls.
~ Polly Horvath
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Let the night come. We are not afraid.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
~ Poppy Z.Brite
Another day working in the Borough of the Damned.
~ Portia Da Costa
Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
~ Poul Anderson
Perang, kekuasaan, kekayaan, seperti unggun api dalam kegelapan dan orang berterbangan untuk mati tumpas di dalamnya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The dark echoed with outlandish orders in that curt, barbaric barking of Germans in command which seems to give vent to a millennial anger.
~ Primo Levi
Not looking for any argument in the dark.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Light in the streets, shadows in the house. #CVirusTruth
~ Proverb
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
~ Publilius Syrus
Un amico in un momento nero è un amico per davvero.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
And what happens if we don't remember? What happens if we never knew? Too many of us are here in the dark because in the rush and clamor of blood the third reptilian brain takes over, the one that says I do not recognize anything of myself in you, and so you are less than nothing.
~ Quan Barry
all of us naked as the day we were born, each of us a candle in the darkness, because while the moon is our soul sister, unlike her we are no one's reflection—we shine in dark places by the light of our own being.
~ Quan Barry
So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.
~ Quentin Crisp
There is no great Dark Man !!!
~ Quentin Crisp
There is no great dark man. Even under an exterior as rugged as a mountain range, there lurks the same wounded, wincing psyche that cripples the rest of us. Where we are led to think we will find strength, we shall discover force; where we hope for ruthlessness, we shall unearth spite; and when we think we are clinging desperately to a rock, it is falling upon us.
~ Quentin Crisp
This weapon seems made to order for the Brothers Grimm downstairs.
~ Quentin Tarantino
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
~ R. Scott Bakker