Black Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up…

— Toni Morrison

“It was a season known for the macabre nature in humans to manifest, a night thought to thinly veil the fabric of dimensions…of course…

— John F. Montagne

“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless…

— Darrell Drake

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

— H. L. Mencken

“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express…

— Theophile Gautier

“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the…

— Malcolm Lowry

“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

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things…

— Bob Dylan

“Those who turn the day into night, the young, the drug addict, the profligate, the drunken and that most miserable, the lover who watches…

— Djuna Barnes

“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

— Alan Moore