Darkness Quotes

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.

~ Pablo Neruda

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.

~ Neil Gaiman

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

~ Stephen King

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.

~ Stephen King

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

~ Amy Neftzger

Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you look into the darkness, the darkness looks into you.

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere.

~ Marieke Nijkamp

Laughter lights up the darkness.

~ A.d. Posey

Nothing can be as peaceful and endless as a long winter darkness, going on and on, like living in a tunnel where the dark sometimes deepens into night and sometimes eases to twilight, you're screened from everything, protected, even more alone than usual.

~ Tove Jansson

it was times like these when a man in a desperate situation must take whatever madness is offered to escape the darker madness in which he finds himself trapped.

~ Sean F. Hogan

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

~ A.d. Posey

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

~ Dan Groat

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

~ Anthony Liccione

There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love.

~ Michael Xavier

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once darkness has what its wants, it drops you like a hot potato.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

Dark alleys, like social networks, are romantic, because you never know what might happen while I perform there every Caturday night. Cats do know, but won't tell. So don’t even ask.

~ Will Advise

Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude

~ Michael R. Fletcher

There were streetlights here, but they were so far apart and surrounded by trees that light dropped away to solid black between them. The skin on the back of his neck crawled as he became aware of the darkness. He didn't usually walk around after nightfall, but tonight he'd had no choice without his car. The wind lifted his hair, leaving him shivering; a voice in his mind chattered nervously.There was someone in my yard the other night...

~ Danika Stone

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.

~ Marie Lu

I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.

~ Marie Lu

The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?

~ Marie Lu

The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.

~ Kirsty Logan

The darkness, the rage. One allows you to see the stars, the other gives you a false strength. But in the end both of which bring great torment.

~ Rodrigo Oliveski

It is better to live in the light than in the darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A swirl of dust and dirt picked up from the shadows that fell over everything in this grungy corner of the world. The dancing movement was hypnotizing. The sand and grit had rested long enough to have drifted into obscurity. But fate had different plans, and this gust of wind had lifted them and turned their obscure and unknown existence into a chaotic tempest of action that could not be ignored.

~ Lexie Syrah

Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Let’s get the heck out of here then. These dark empty places give me the creeps. I feel like zombies are going to spring out at any time,” I said, picking up my dropped items.“If there are zombies then we have much bigger problems,” he joked.-Cora and Noah

~ Andrea Heltsley

You can only diffuse light in dark places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed.

~ Daniella Michalleni

Silence is the best melody.

~ Azereth Skivel

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

~ Dean Koontz

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

~ Aryn Kyle

No truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong — you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.

~ John Updike