Quotes About Darkness

But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni

Sickness made itself at home in their close, dark rooms, disease thriving in the absence of windows and hope.

En chacun de nous existe un Mr Hyde; le tout est d'empêcher que les conditions d'émergence du monstre ne soient rassemblées.

Thou hast eternity and the moment, what matter? Time is the lure of the Realm of Darkness. Do not let thyself be caught. Have no other care than for thy mission, every day!

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the cheer beneath her darkness, unlike everyday life, which tends to have the opposite effect

She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.

The fact that I'm sitting here in the chilly leaves imagining ways to get rid of the boy I loved so much I brought him back from the dead is so ridiculous, so horrifying, it's almost funny. In an unbelievable, black humor way that's not really funny at all.

can shoot an arrow into it and make it rain blood.

Spending those hours in the dark with only Glen's voice for company had taught Cash more than he ever thought possible about how to deal with pain, about how to keep your soul intact during fear—about what a human being could do with a little bit of confidence in the world around him.

And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.

The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown by a candle. Puffs of darkness sweep into the corners, and keep rolling through the room behind his chair. The air is silver and pearl, for the night is liquid with moonlight. See how the roof glitters, like ice! Over there, a slice of yellow cuts into the silver-blue, and beside it stand two geraniums, purple because the light is silver-blue, to-night.

Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening

That night they sat up well past dark around the dim flame of a single gas lamp, knowing, I suppose, that going to bed would be an admission that there was no ordinary, everyday explanation for my disappearance, and that when they awoke in the morning, they would have passed into some new era in their lives — the era that began with the unexplained loss of one of their own, and whatever that might mean next for them.

I was a very solitary, introverted child who got punished by being sent to a dark room quite frequently. But you cannot imagine how much I enjoyed myself in that room, and how I would look forward to being punished, because it was there that I discovered the light of darkness.

Si te marchas, haré un muñeco de cera, con tu rostro, con tu cuerpo, y le clavaré alfileres negros, todas las noches, todas las noches. [...] Nunca vivirás en paz. Nunca vivirás en paz. Llenaré de alfileres tu corazón...

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.

El sexo es el acto de las tinieblas y el enamoramiento la reunión de los tormentos

No se asocien íntimamente con los que son incrédulos. ¿Cómo puede la justicia asociarse con la maldad? ¿Cómo puede la luz vivir con las tinieblas? ¿Qué armonía puede haber entre Cristo y el diablo? ¿Cómo puede un creyente asociarse con un incrédulo?».11