Black Quote by Richard E. Byrd

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility…

— Sarah Kane

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

— Henry David Thoreau

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

— John Dryden

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will…

— William Wetmore Story

“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house…

— Teju Cole

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude…

— William Wordsworth

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and…

— Joko Beck

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal…

— Anonymous

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever…

— Gautama Buddha

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be,…

— Stephen Fry

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

— Lisa Kleypas