Dark Quote by Christopher Paolini

“The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“It was one of those warm, still, almost tropical nights, so rarely seen on the northern waters, when a profound calm reigns in the…

— George Kennan

The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light…

— Mervyn Peake

“That night, though, far out into the North Atlantic, there were no lights to be seen, for there was no shipping. The deep-water lanes…

— Robert McFarlane

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend…

— Edith Wharton

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really…

— Tomas Transtromer

Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come from the…

— Charles Dickens

“A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull…

— Alaina Stanford

Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and…

— Madison Cawein

Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface…

— Lawrence Beesley

“It was a dark night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed lands, and passed out upon the marshes. Beyond their…

— Charles Dickens