Darkness Quotes

3024 Darkness quotes by 1686 unique authors

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. — Mark Twain
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness,… — Helen Keller
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that… — Victor Hugo
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in… — Ursula K. Le Guin
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant… — Ernest Shackleton
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… — David Foster Wallace
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire… — Jim Butcher
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some… — Madeleine L'Engle
The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness. — Ted Dekker
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all… — Clive Barker
...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out… — Neal Shusterman
It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness,… — George Q. Cannon
She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away… — Megan Whalen Turner
Darkness promotes speech. — Alberto Manguel
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. — Italo Calvino
Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does… — Edith Wharton
The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early,… — George MacDonald
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. — George Bernard Shaw
One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so… — Shel Silverstein

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