“In the stillness of headstones, Darkness is my blanket. And forever is my song. In the arms if stone angels, I'm not… — Jordan Dane Copy Share Image
“Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind... the seeds are light or darkness... they'll break apart or mend... Sow… — Colleen Luntzel Copy Share Image
“The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What do I see? Darkness all around me No light it's suffocating me I'm begging for it to kill me but I'm… — TheShadowOfhell Copy Share Image
Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“They reached for her, faces shadowed and twisted. Yet—yet even those faces, so warped with hatred … she still loved them—even if… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own… — Ted E. Brewerton Copy Share Image
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes That witnessed huge affliction… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“That's the key, isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it...that's the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“See that shadow? That’s the dark part of you that you don’t want anyone to see. It follows you. Run from it,… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she'd ever experienced. An old, old recognition.… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“If you have ever wondered what the darkness hides, if the stories are true. Don’t. They are real and my advice to… — J. L. Hendricks Copy Share Image
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We all face hard parts of life that seem like there is no end to the obstacles, but hardship is a part… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“And then there is that day when all around, all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one by one, from… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Their eyes wide open, they stared into empty nothingness. There was silence everywhere. Apart from a few twinkling of stars, masses of… — Mehreen Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Wilhelmine chatted on, chatted as if emboldened by the gathering dusk. She wasn't afraid any more. She didn't blush any more. And… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“My love for darkness is.. Yes, but you won't understand, I am mad for darkness, yes really But no one can understand..… — Isha Anand Copy Share Image
...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Before I left the house I put my head into the boys' bedroom. The room was cool but the children seemed to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The evening with its lamps burning The night with its head in its hands The early morning I look back at the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the… — Robyn Young Copy Share Image