Quotes About Darkness

À cette heure, elle voulut le mal, le mal que personne ne commet, le mal qui allait emplir son existence vide et la mettre enfin dans cet enfer dont elle avait toujours peur.

The Night Is Darkening Round M The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me; I will not, cannot go.

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.

I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes-to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation, before any one else beheld it. They would not shut; they seemed to sneer at my attempts, and his parted lips and sharp, white teeth sneered too!

She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intense anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. Had it been dark, I dare say, he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.

Yo, desdichada criatura tuve que bajar finalmente mi bandera, tras una larga lucha hasta el oscurecer, con el abatimiento y la soledad.

Y la de Linton es tan distinta como un rayo de luna de un relampago o como el hielo del fuego

May she wake in torment! May you not rest as long as I am living! You said that I killed you – well haunt me, then! Be with me always – take any form – drive me insane! Only don't leave me in this darkness where I cannot find you! You know I can't live without my life! I can't live without my soul!

And hark you, Heathcliff! clear you too quite from my reach and hearing.  I wouldn't murder you to-night; unless, perhaps, I set the house on fire: but that's as my fancy goes.

Mi existencia se resumiría en dos frases: condenación y muerte.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner's lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

The Dark—felt beautiful—

What need of Day - To Those whose Dark - hath so - surpassing Sun - It deem it be - Continually - At the Meridian?

Shadows hold their breath;

A tutti è dovuto il mattino, ad alcuni la notte. A solo pochi eletti la luce dell'aurora.

The Loneliness One dare not sound— ... The Horror not to be surveyed—