Darkness Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick…

— Louis Aragon

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a…

— Annie Dillard

“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws us along…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a snow storm,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our lives are often a continuous betrayal and denial of what came before, we twist and distort everything as time passes, and yet we…

— Javier Marías

“There are things beyond the veil of human understanding, strange, antediluvian monstrosities that stalk the shadows, preying on dark, lost minds, waiting at the…

— S.T. Joshi

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing…

— Theodore Roethke

“Paradoxically, in descending into the depths of the unconscious in order to deal with the prima materia of the shadow, we are simultaneously on…

— Paul Levy

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have…

— Richard Jefferies

“And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“But gradually through the tumultuous talk of the days and the nightlong wonderings when I sat groping for hope through the darkness, there began…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it…

— James Salter