Containing Quote by Gerard Debreu

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

— Victor Hugo

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

— Bill Bryson

A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere…

— Paula Fox

“It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in the City…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Germany’s siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to ‘storm out of the fortress’ to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary’s hatred of…

— Paul Ham

“France was eclipsed by the solid German block, producing far more than twice her number of military males each year, towering up grim and…

— William Stevenson

After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis,…

— Nicolaas Bloembergen

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

— Isak Dinesen

Prague is a dark place.

— Fred Durst

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...

— Mikhail Bulgakov

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you…

— Mathieu Kassovitz