Darkness Quote by John Updike

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The darkness is the past.

— Anonymous

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For…

— Walt Whitman

“It was like dawn, and then dusk cascading over the Himalayas. First, the gradual brightening over snow and contour, then the shining, sparkling sun…

— Radhika Mukherjee

“Shadows   The shadows looming in the corners wore colors similar to bruises. No way of knowing when the darkness would end. Heart racing…

— Jennae Cecelia

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow…

— Robert Musil

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

— Anonymous

“A darkness, a flood of darkness that opened and spread and blotted out all things.”

— H.G.Wells

“The surrounding black night air rushed by me as my eyes began to adjust to the darkness and recognize shapes in the black on…

— Peter Jenkins

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden…

— Madeline Miller