Darkness Quote by C.M. Turner

“The night is quiet but for the chirping crickets, and dark too, lit only by a few lanterns still shimmering in windows and by…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“Darkness fell over the small isolated cottage, the sound of the ocean waves breaking on the nearby beach. The man checked one last time…

— Brian L. Porter

“Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling…

— Vikram Seth

“Outside, the air filled with cricket noise, as the sun reddened in its descent.”

— R.J. Lawrence

“...in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.”

— T.H. White

“At noontime When the earth is bright with flaming heat falling straight down the cricket sets up a high-pitched singing in his wings”

— Sappho

“Toward early morning he woke, sat up quickly and looked about him. It was still dark and the fire had long since died, still…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and…

— T.H. White

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside…

— Cormac McCarthy

“It was summer again, and the summer nights smelled like murdered grass and sounded like crickets fucking.”

— Lev Grossman

“Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien