Darkness Quotes

There is no darkness when I go to sleep; the wicked, as they say, never truly rest. I see blinding flashes of desperate arms reaching out, I hear cries for help over the crackling of burning wood, the ashen remains and the gut-wrenching smell of charred bodies.

~ Alex Tanner

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

~ Alfred Ernest Jones

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.

~ Silje Akselberg Iversen

Darkness became her world...

~ Morgan Rhodes

I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.

~ Emily Dickinson

Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.I swear, I do.

~ Ripley Patton

For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark.

~ Mark W. Boyer

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what he's doing. Sometimes Cain thinks he possesses a soul without shadows. That's what people want to be close to. But if so, it's not like a child's, for a child's soul is delicate, its flickering flame needs no more than the opening of a door onto the world to blow it out. Nothing can destroy Abel's light. In his presence one never feels wicked, only foolish. That darkness which in solitude can seem so powerful, occasionally even intoxicating, seems risible in his company.

~ Karl Ove Knausgård

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

~ Joan Didion

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

~ Helen Keller

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

~ Rae Hachton

When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.

~ Rita Stradling

When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey.

~ Mark W. Boyer

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

~ Marisha Pessl

It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you bare.” Somehow, his black eyes darkened, the venom in his words more deadly than a viper’s bite. “Let me degrade you, Katherine.

~ Dianna Hardy

It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be.

~ T.s. Eliot

Darkness is drowned by three lights; nature, knowledge, and truth.

~ Barbra Annino

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

~ Frank Herbert

Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames,its arms turning like a drowning man's.I send out red signals across your absent eyesthat smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.You keep only darkness, my distant female,from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad netsto that sea that is thrashed by your oceanic eyes.The birds of night peck at the first starsthat flash like my soul when I love you.The night gallops on its shadowy mareshedding blue tassels over the land.

~ Pablo Neruda

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.

~ Paul Henri Thiry D'holbach

Before September 11, the skinny, jittery black guy made security think one thing: drug mule. But after the attacks, security only cared about bombs. So it was the Arab guys, the Puerto Ricans and Indians, even white men, that got searched. I was too dark to make people worry on a plane. Still caused fear in elevators.

~ Victor Lavalle

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Your eyes,' Asha grunted as he looked at him briefly. 'Turn them off.' He clicked his fingers and Blitzen's eyes blinked and when they opened only the whites of his eyes were visible, all he could see was darkness.

~ Keisha Keenleyside

Darkness I find myself set upon a ship of fools and cast adrift.Adrift in sea of madness, steaming towards a storm of uncertainty. Overboard, swirling, twirling tumbling.Engulfed in madness. Shipwrecked, marooned. Washed upon a rock of hope. Darkness surrounds. Within the darkness madness laps upon a distant shore. Morning breaks and sun rises once more.Darkness retreats into the shadows. Golden rays of light cleanse the mind and soul. A new day dawns heralding sanity, and hopefor the human race once more.

~ Michael Tianias

Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.

~ Truth Devour

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

~ Robert Boswell

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

~ Anne Sexton

Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.

~ Ankita Singhal

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

~ Nicholas Trandahl

It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.

~ Thomas Harris

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

~ Morris West

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

~ Andrea Cremer

Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it.Hades wandered across the fields with him, Kerberos limping along at his side. “No one wants the god of death at their fertility festival.”“Sure they do. I’ve heard plenty of girls sighing over your tasty darkness.”“Tasty darkness. Really.

~ Molly Ringle

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.And now, in this darkness, I fear nothing. If you were to leave me here, I would feel nothing. I would walk as I am walking now. As a man, you can't know what I mean by what I say.You can't know a woman's vulnerability. You can't know the sense of power that belongs to me now.

~ Anne Rice

Darkness will never prevail. If you do not recognize the evil in our world, you will never stand up to it.

~ Landon Parham

He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The recognition of his carelessness filled Mr. Lecky with fear and anger. In the dusk his eerie heart could anticipate the hours of terror which he had laid up for himself. Sounds, real or imaginary, the silences and secrets of the night, the working of his own mind, skilled in cruel illusion and rich in evil fancy, would find him without recourse.

~ James Gould Cozzens

I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.

~ Oprah Winfrey