Darkness Quote by Tammy Pemper

“…the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was like the arrival of night when you knew that you would never see anything in daylight again.”

— Colm Tóibín

“I paused finally and watched the trees for slashes of light, but saw none. As my heart settled and my ears became less occupied…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.”

— William Golding

“The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.”

— Lorrie Moore

“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become…

— Derek Raymond

“did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we…

— Dean Koontz

“It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.”

— Kate Morton

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“For it seemed (though why it seemed so, no one knew) that everything began on that night. And, once begun, it could not be…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful things, and…

— Wendell Berry