Quote by Tahereh Mafi

“I'm shutting my eyes tight so everything goes black. But I can't do it. It's never entirely black.”

— À bout de souffle (1960 François Truffaut

“I close my eyes. My bones sob. Throb. I'm so weary with tryin to hold myself together. Tryin to hold back the darkness.”

— Moira Young

“Hey, when the skies turn black, I will reach you. I will pull you from the darkness and bring you home. Always.”

— Randi Cooley Wilson

“Everytime I close my eyes it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the…

— Lana Del Rey

“I understand it now. You can't shut anything out. You have to open yourself completely and just receive. Let it get close to you,…

— Ebba Haslund

“With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. In a way. I love to get up and move about in it, then…

— Samuel Beckett

“It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.”

— Louise Fitzhugh

“I kept staring at the door as if it held the secret to the universe.”

— A.B. Shepherd

“Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.”

— Andrea Cremer

“When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you...”

— Tracey-anne McCartney

“Don't be afraid...it's only falling asleep in one world and waking up in another.”

— Francis Edward Aloysius Xavier O'Day 19071962

“God, how dark it is here, and totally silent. Nothing but me lives in this vacuum.”

— Philip K Dick