Darkness Quote by Elizabeth Barrette

“Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“My soul was like a summer evening, after a heavy fall of rain, when the drops are yet glistening on the trees in the…

— George MacDonald

“The deepest shade of twilight did not send him from his favourite plane-tree. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light…

— Ann Radcliffe

“And now, let us go out on the terrace where 'droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,' while the evening star 'washes the dusk…

— Oscar Wilde

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“from the poem Hum, Hum The resurrection of the morning. The mystery of the night. The hummingbird's wings. The excitement of thunder. The rainbow…

— Mary Oliver

“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…

— Charlotte Brontë

“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the distant table-landsThrough…

— Willa Cather

“A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes. The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies; While wakes the nodding…

— John B. Tabb

O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways I cannot…

— John Keats

“In your eyes the flames of twilight fought on. And the leaves fell on the water of your soul.”

— Neruda, Pablo