Dark Quote by Derek Walcott

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

“what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill…

— Rita Mae Brown

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she…

— Ellen Muth

“The dull gray days of the preceding winter and spring, so uneventless and monotonous, seemed more associated with what she cared for now above…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their…

— Hugo Claus

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream…

— William Shakespeare

“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the…

— John Banville

“Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have…

— Jerome K Jerome

“and rocks and creaks and moans in the eternal breeze. Through all ages — when the pavement was grass, when it was swamp, through…

— Virginia Woolf

“The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated…

— Georges Rodenbach

In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits…

— Justin Cronin