Darkness Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“I was lost in a void of perpetual darkness. Disconnected from myself. Turned inside out. No sign of life. Eventually, the darkness was my…

— B.G. Bowers

“I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that cold for…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Skeletons of houses loomed around me, their broken faces screaming in pain from the torture that they had had to endure and the murders…

— Rebbecca Ethington

“In the shadows of their struggles, I found a light that reflected my own—a journey not just of survival, but of becoming.”

— Nutan Bajracharya

“I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back…

— Franz Kafka

“Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have left the…

— Poppet

“This was the setting in which the most troubled and most precious days of my life were lived: an abode from which our adventurings…

— Alain-Fournier

“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for…

— Madeline Miller

“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought…

— Richelle E. Goodrich