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Quotes About Dark

Faith puts you out on a wide river in a little boat, in the fog, in the dark.
~ Wendell Berry
And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?
~ William Blake
Eternals I hear your call gladly, Dictate swift winged words, & fear not To unfold your dark visions of torment.
~ William Blake
O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: the north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark deep-founded habitation.
~ William Blake
Beautiful thing, my dove, unable and all who are windblown, touched by the fire and unable, a roar that (soundless) drowns the sense with its reiteration unwilling to lie in its bed and sleep and sleep, sleep in its dark bed. Summer! it is summer .—and still the roar in his mind is unabated
~ William Carlos Williams
Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.
~ William Faulkner
I be dog if hit don't look like sometimes that when a fellow sets out to play a joke, hit ain't another fellow he's playing that joke on; hit's a kind of big power laying still somewhere in the dark that he sets out to prank with without knowing hit, and hit all depends on whether that ere power is in the notion to take a joke or not, whether or not hit blows up right in his face, like this one did in mine. (A Bear Hunt)
~ William Faulkner
Then the dark began to go in smooth, bright shapes, like it always does, even when Caddy says that I have been asleep.
~ William Faulkner
The three quarters began. The first note sounded, measured and tranquil, serenely peremptory, emptying the unhurried silence for the next one and that's it if people could only change one another forever that way merge like a flame swirling up for an instant then blown cleanly out along the cool eternal dark instead of lying there trying not to think of the swing until all cedars came to have that vivid dead smell of perfume that Benjy hated so.
~ William Faulkner
I be dog if hit don't look like sometimes that when a fellow sets out to play a joke, hit ain't another fellow he's playing that joke on; hit's a kind of big power laying still somewhere in the dark that he sets out to prank with without knowing hit, and hit all depends on whether that ere power is in the notion to take a joke or not.
~ William Faulkner
A word? the Sicilian said, raising his arms. His mile was more angelic than his face Buttercup halted. Speak. We are but poor circus performers, the Sicilian explained, It is dark and we are lost. We were told there was a village nearby that might enjoy our skills. You were misinformed, Buttercup told him, There is no one, not for many miles. Then there will be no one to hear you scream.
~ William Goldman
We are but poor circus performers. the Sicilian explained. It is dark and we are lost. We were told that there is a village nearby that might enjoy our skills. You were misinformed, Buttercup said. There is no one not for many miles. Then no one will be able to hear you scream. the Sicilian said, and he jumped with frightening agility toward her face.
~ William Goldman
The Thieves Quarter was worse than he remembered. Always, before, Fezzik had been with him, and they made rhymes, and Fezzik was enough to keep any thief away. Inigo moved panicked up the dark streets, desperately afraid.
~ William Goldman
There are dark hints too that she was repelled by the masochistic inclinations of her lover, that this brutal tyrant in politics yearned to be enslaved by the woman he loved—a not uncommon urge in such men, according to the sexologists.
~ William L. Shirer
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.
~ China Mieville
and Lublamai no longer thought of screaming but only of watching as those dark markings rolled and boiled in perfect symetry across the wings like clouds in a night sky above, in water below.
~ China Mieville
May the saints of all the stars and constellations bring you hope as they guide you out of the dark and into the light, on this voyage and the next. And all the journeys still to come. For now and evermore. - The Doctor.
~ Chris Chibnall
Time's an unsealed envelope and crime's a metaphor for anguish, private symphonies of intensity exploding in the dark.
~ Chris Kraus
Great events make me quiet and calm and only little trifles fidget me and irritate my nerves. But I feel grown old and serious, and the future is dark.
~ Hector Bolitho
she jumped to her feet and hurried off, returning only seconds later with a dark brown bottle and a coffee mug that said And then Buffy staked Edward. The End.
~ Heidi Betts
Anderson portrayed the city in Dark Laughter.
~ Heidi Pitlor
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
~ Heinrich Heine
The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.
~ Helen Macdonald
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel