Darkness Quote by Iain Banks Download Open image ““There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.”” — Iain Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darkness
“Only what is in the dark tries to dull the light of what shines.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Night Triumphant- and the Stars Eternal. If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. It” — Wendy Francis Copy Share Image
“Darkness is an uncomfortable place, but that is where stars are made.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make clear.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe. silence and stars A million suns stretch out beyond me, their light piercing the… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“for the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them.” — Darren White Copy Share Image
“One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn’t the absence of darkness. Darkness is… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
“Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The stars cut into the inky black sky, like glinting shards of glass.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What does he look like? The question was soft- tentative. I knew who he meant. I interlaced my fingers through Rhysand's and squeezed tightly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image