Black Quote by Charles Dickens

“At first you saw only a mass of coarse, matted black hair; presently it was seen that this covered a body of fearful thinness,…

— M.R. James

“a figure whose black eyes have seen the silent halls of the dead, whose ruined mouth has tasted delicacies unknown this side of the…

— John Langan

“Even more than black death he dreaded the gaudy gate: the mask of sweet red rubber, the violet overhead lights, the rattling ride through…

— Adam Begley

“In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“She lit the candelabras which stood on the mantelpiece. Placed at the head of the bead, on a side-table, they looked like two burning…

— Remy de Gourmont

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton…

— Annie Besant

“I went in; I closed the door. I sat down on the bed. Blackest space extended before me. I was not in this blackness,…

— Maurice Blanchot

“There was nothing frightening about the dead man; there never is. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only…

— Diana Gabaldon

“At first it seemed to be no more than a chance ray of light beamed into the vestibule by the shifting of a tree-bough…

— Seabury Quinn

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that…

— Charles Dickens

“I was dressed to leave the house, and was crossing the stage on my way out, when he tapped me on the shoulder. Never…

— Charles Dickens