--- title: "10 Darkness Lost Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Darkness Lost quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Darkness Lost sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ca/marni-mann-26702_darkness_accept-the-darkness-because-it-s-who-you_611054.jpg" --- > [“Accept the darkness, because it’s who you are. It’s who we all are. Some of us get lost in it…others wrap themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marni-mann/accept-the-darkness-because-it-s-who-you-are-it-s-who-we-all-are-some/) [Marni Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marni-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ca/marni-mann-26702_darkness_accept-the-darkness-because-it-s-who-you_611054.jpg) > [“I stared at the flames licking at the darkness and everything was lost as I sank deeper into nothingness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-donovan/i-stared-at-the-flames-licking-at-the-darkness-and-everything-was/) [Rebecca Donovan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-donovan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c18/rebecca-donovan-3163_darkness_i-stared-at-the-flames-licking-at-the-da_217311.jpg) > [There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-almond/there-s-light-and-joy-but-there-s-also-darkness-all-around-and-we-can/) [David Almond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-almond/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b17/david-almond-9241_darkness_there-s-light-and-joy-but-there-s-also-d_2747284.jpg) > [“But daylight brought with it a wonder. None of us had expected to see it again. And as the darkness lost its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tammy-pemper/but-daylight-brought-with-it-a-wonder-none-of-us-had-expected-to-see/) [Tammy Pemper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tammy-pemper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/tammy-pemper-102259_darkness_but-daylight-brought-with-it-a-wonder-no_679022.jpg) > [“I may have been born into this world to be the Gwardian, but I was created for you, for us. You are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madison-thorne-grey/i-may-have-been-born-into-this-world-to-be-the-gwardian-but-i-was/) [Madison Thorne Grey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madison-thorne-grey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/505/madison-thorne-grey-7159_alpha-males_i-may-have-been-born-into-this-world-to_1630854.jpg) > [Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/persephone-herself-is-but-a-voice-or-a-darkness-invisible-enfolded-in/) [D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2c/d-h-lawrence-426_arms_persephone-herself-is-but-a-voice-or-a-d_1738617.png) > [Am I alive or am I dead. My greatest regrets repeating in my head. Feeling so empty and cold, like a puddle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mackenzie-cheesman/am-i-alive-or-am-i-dead-my-greatest-regrets-repeating-in-my-head/) [MacKenzie Cheesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mackenzie-cheesman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b18/mackenzie-cheesman-34570_death_am-i-alive-or-am-i-dead-my-greatest-regr_2937213.jpg) > [For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/for-now-oh-my-god-it-is-to-you-alone-that-i-can-talk-because-nobody/) [Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/thomas-merton-231_anguish_for-now-oh-my-god-it-is-to-you-alone-tha_92206.jpg) > [“The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-shepard/the-effort-mined-a-core-of-dizziness-inside-him-he-resisted-it-but/) [Lucius Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-shepard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/lucius-shepard-51799_darkness_the-effort-mined-a-core-of-dizziness-ins_3151050.jpg) > [Slowly falling down the hole Feverishly flailing, no place to hold. Consumed by darkness, where did she go? Sadness has its hold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaile-stewart/slowly-falling-down-the-hole-feverishly-flailing-no-place-to-hold/) [Kaile Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaile-stewart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/kaile-stewart-16885_darkness_slowly-falling-down-the-hole-feverishly_2705597.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness-lost/#itemlist", "name": "Darkness Lost Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Accept the darkness, because it’s who you are. It’s who we all are. 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He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness, nothing he cared to know about the someone in charge of death and butterflies, he let himself go spiraling down past layers of darkness and shining wings, darkness and mystical light, and a memory of pain so bright that it became a white darkness wherein he lost all track of being.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lucius Shepard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-shepard/the-effort-mined-a-core-of-dizziness-inside-him-he-resisted-it-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/lucius-shepard-51799_darkness_the-effort-mined-a-core-of-dizziness-ins_3151050.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/lucius-shepard-51799_darkness_the-effort-mined-a-core-of-dizziness-ins_3151050.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/lucius-shepard-51799_darkness_the-effort-mined-a-core-of-dizziness-ins_3151050.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. 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I loved you she whispers as she takes her last breath If only you knew you could save her from death And just like that she slips away Leaving pools of red for skies of gray She looks back and thinks of what could have been If only that blade never met her skin Take a deep breath before you begin If you battle the blade it will be hard to win And if you are lost and want to give in Remember your life is not worth taking for the pain that youre in.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kaile Stewart" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaile-stewart/slowly-falling-down-the-hole-feverishly-flailing-no-place-to-hold/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/kaile-stewart-16885_darkness_slowly-falling-down-the-hole-feverishly_2705597.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/kaile-stewart-16885_darkness_slowly-falling-down-the-hole-feverishly_2705597.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/kaile-stewart-16885_darkness_slowly-falling-down-the-hole-feverishly_2705597.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Slowly falling down the hole Feverishly flailing, no place to hold. 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