Darkness Quote by Dani Shapiro

“It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating.…

— Azar Nafisi

“I remember feeling as though I’d been sitting in a darkened room all of my life—comfortable and warm and safe and quiet—then all of…

— Peter Hook

“It was terror, I realised, the kind reserved for nightmares, when your mind has no defence against the dark. It was the most primitive,…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling, light broke…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The darkness is thick enough to conceal the worst crimes, leaving behind nothing but the fading stench of burning flesh that creeps into our…

— Ingrid Nickelsen

“I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“That night I was alone in my room with the lights off. The radio was on and I was staring at the ceiling. I…

— Damien Echols

“It was the deepest part of the night. There was a name for it that I couldn’t remember – that mystical black hour where…

— Kkat

“The wakefulness was always there beside me. I could feel its chilling shadow. It was the shadow of myself. Weird, I would think as…

— Haruki Murakami

“What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.”

— Deb Caletti

“There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his…

— J.K. Rowling

“All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful things, and…

— Wendell Berry