--- title: "6 Terror Darkness Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 6 Terror Darkness quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Terror Darkness sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/cornelia-funke-908_assuming_sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-con_658837.png" --- > [“Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta’s constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-funke/sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-constant-fear-of-curses-and/) [Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-funke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/cornelia-funke-908_assuming_sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-con_658837.png) > [“hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest non radii solis neque lucida tela diei discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque. (1.146ff.) Therefore it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucretius/hunc-igitur-terrorem-animi-tenebrasque-necessest-non-radii-solis/) [Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucretius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46f/lucretius-1632_sun_hunc-igitur-terrorem-animi-tenebrasque-n_1960291.png) > [“The whole of life but labours in the dark. For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/titus-lucretius-carus/the-whole-of-life-but-labours-in-the-dark-for-just-as-children/) [Titus Lucretius Carus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/titus-lucretius-carus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/titus-lucretius-carus-30804_bc_the-whole-of-life-but-labours-in-the-dar_1972715.jpg) > [For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucretius/for-as-children-tremble-and-fear-everything-in-the-blind-darkness-so-2/) [Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucretius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/lucretius-1632_aspect_for-as-children-tremble-and-fear-everyth_2195251.png) > [There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-butcher/there-s-power-in-the-night-there-s-terror-in-the-darkness-despite-all/) [Jim Butcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-butcher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70e/jim-butcher-151_cry_there-s-power-in-the-night-there-s-terro_2324986.png) > [“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/it-was-not-merely-that-his-brother-was-dead-his-brain-too-young-to/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d57/graham-greene-441_books_it-was-not-merely-that-his-brother-was-d_2544170.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/terror-darkness/#itemlist", "name": "Terror Darkness Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta’s constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same. Dustfinger”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornelia Funke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-funke/sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-constant-fear-of-curses-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/cornelia-funke-908_assuming_sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-con_658837.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/cornelia-funke-908_assuming_sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-con_658837.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/cornelia-funke-908_assuming_sometimes-dustfinger-thought-basta-s-con_658837.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta’s constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his…” — Cornelia Funke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest non radii solis neque lucida tela diei discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque. 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For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so even we at times Dread in the light so many things that be No whit more fearsome than what children feign, Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark. This terror then, this darkness of the mind, Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, But only nature's aspect and her law.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Titus Lucretius Carus" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/titus-lucretius-carus/the-whole-of-life-but-labours-in-the-dark-for-just-as-children/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/titus-lucretius-carus-30804_bc_the-whole-of-life-but-labours-in-the-dar_1972715.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/titus-lucretius-carus-30804_bc_the-whole-of-life-but-labours-in-the-dar_1972715.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/titus-lucretius-carus-30804_bc_the-whole-of-life-but-labours-in-the-dar_1972715.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The whole of life but labours in the dark. 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