Darkness Quote by William Golding

“The sky was so clear and blue, so striking in its stillness, that I wanted to cry.”

— Lisa Ko

“My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world…

— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

“If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes…

— C.S. Lewis

“He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“The tears had washed me out, like an enema for the heart. I was hollow. Light.”

— Jo Furniss

“I listen carefully. That’s when I hear someone softly, almost imperceptibly, weeping. A sobbing from somewhere in the darkness. Someone is crying for me.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief…

— Molli Fields

“But life was muffled. Muted. Even my lightest moments were wrapped in relentless grief and loss, pressed down by the anxious taste of waiting…

— Julie Berry

“When you looked up to the sky and cried "Why?" sometimes the sky shrugged. Yet other times it answered with the warm assurance of…

— Libba Bray

“You brought the silence, The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard, Because it was where you were. And now you've taken it away. And…

— Mia Sheridan

“In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence. Not the fake silence you get when you plug your ears so…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again…

— Augusten Burroughs