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If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.
— Sunday Adelaja
During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life…
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Darkness is a natural fear, one that takes the things you love most, the most valuable innocence, and turns them against you. The struggle is to see past the illusions, and see the light in your fear.
— Various
To see in the dark, close your eyes.
— J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared over the smoke, and distant windows lit mysterious lights. The stillness deepened and the loneliness. Then all the outcast things that are silent by day found voices.
— Lord Dunsany, A Dreamer's Tales
Bad things happen in dark places.
— Katy Lee, Grave Danger
Why not dare yourself to become a shinning positive light where darkness is the only thing known?
He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus the Vampire: Redemption
The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable.
— Katherine McIntyre, Stolen Petals
Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you.
Let me love you, he saidI want to mould that broken heart,To feel the pain the others before I have caused,Walk down the darkness that you walked through,Understand how something so broken can be so beautiful,I need to understand how you manifested.
— Tanzy Sayadi, Write like no one is reading 2
Her dark world was bright because of her sparkling attitude!
— Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
She'd had little patience with darkness, and her heartheld only a measure of shadow. I touchedthe warm dust of those colors, her tools,and left there with light on the tips of my fingers.
— Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows
Made a decision. I will never let a sunny day happen without me again. Darkness is almost always guaranteed unless some strange thing happens. But the sun...?! Go get some.
— Robin Caldwell
Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight...
— Donna Lynn Hope
Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close
— Johnathan Jena
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
— Carla H. Krueger
Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.
— Elin Hilderbrand, Silver Girl
My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me.
— LeAnne Mechelle, Write like no one is reading 2
Life blackens at the contact of truth.
— Paul Valéry
I didn’t know what darkness was until I lost you
— Sylvain Reynard, The Raven
The universe is amply supplied with night.
— Neil Gaiman
Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
While the burning fish is tracing his arcnear the cypress, beneath the highest blue of all,and the blind boy flies away in the white stone,and the ivory poem of the green cicadabeats and reverberates in the elm,let us give honor to the Lord—the black mark of his good hand—who has arranged for silence in all this noise.	Honor to the god of distance and of absence,ff the anchor in the sea—the open sea…He frees us from the world—it’s everywhere—he opens roads for us to walk on.	With our cup of darkness filled to the brim,with our heart that always knows some hunger,let us give honor to the Lord who created the zeroand carved our thought out of the block of faith.
— Antonio Machado, Times Alone: Selected Poems
Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.
— Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of Excluded Middle
There is more to darkness than nightfall.
— David Malouf, Earth Hour
Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.
— A. Ashley Straker, Infected Connection
Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.
— Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?
— Peggy Toney Horton
But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.
— Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
Black was the without eyeBlack the within tongueBlack was the heartBlack the liver, black the lungsUnable to suck in lightBlack the blood in its loud tunnelBlack the bowels packed in furnaceBlack too the musclesStriving to pull out into the lightBlack the nerves, black the brainWith its tombed visionsBlack also the soul, the huge stammerOf the cry that, swelling, could notPronounce its sun.
— Ted Hughes, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.
— Duncan Harper, Witch of the Fall
It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world’s darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density.
— Haruki Murakami
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
— Isobelle Carmody, The Gathering
My eyes always keep searching,for something inexpressible,above the far away sky.I long to get lost,inside the evening-twilight.Silence always tickles me —in a strange way;I meet “me”in the time between sunset and darkness.
— Khadija Rupa
In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over me; the same unfathomable black eternity which my thoughts strove against and could not understand. I made the most despairing efforts to find a word black enough to characterize this darkness; a word so horribly black that it would darken my lips if I named it. Lord! how dark it was! and I am carried back in thought to the sea and the dark monsters that lay in wait for me. They would draw me to them, and clutch me tightly and bear me away by land and sea, through dark realms that no soul has seen. I feel myself on board, drawn through waters, hovering in clouds, sinking--sinking.
— Knut Hamsun, Hunger
And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own.
— John Hay, The Way to the Salt Marsh: A John Hay Reader
Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything
— Brielle A. Marino, The Last Eve
Carl Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” What Dr. Jung said in two separate and unrelated statements was:Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology, P. 193People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 99.
— C.G. Jung
Sometimes the best way out of darkness is into it.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.
— Catherine Doyle, Vendetta
I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
— Samwise Gamgee
The twilight seems invidious.It simply can’t let the sun hide away when darkness is just another name for night..
— Munia Khan
If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These are the areas of my proficiency.
— Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark
But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.
— Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Some times it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.
— Anoymous Authors
Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.
— Anonymous
I always prefer a room with full of darkness.because lights irritates me.
— Sher-E-Yazdan
As soon as the torch went out the atmosphere of the forest intensified. As her eyes slowly became accustomed to the darkness she started to notice the outlines of canopies above them where trees were silhouetted against the pale moonlight.The sounds around them became more noticeable; the shuffling of an animal through the undergrowth, the whistling of the wind through the trees, and now and then the cry of some creature being captured in the darkness.As they sat quietly, the noises seemed to become louder still until both visitors felt absorbed into the forest world.
— Emily Arden, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two
Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.
— Anne Rice
I am the son of Hades. I go where I wish. The darkness is my birthright.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...
— Edgar Allan Poe
Sometimes,' Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, 'everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while'. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. 'I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.
— Sarah Pinborough, Beauty
There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.
— Solange nicole
I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.
— A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly
And in the ocean I will fly to the bottomless pit of darkness
— ellena fedora
The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.
— Mother Teresa
Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.
— Solange nicole
An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Be who you are and say what you feel, but if you can't handle, then you sure as hell don't deserve, darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that 
— Irak. ibrahim Hussain Didi
There is a distinct difference between Darkness and Satan. Darkness is silence, the void, Zen; nothingness. Satan was a pig-headed being who fought to get his way. Wake up! Don't let him have his way anymore.
— Solange nicole
...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
— Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark
Below the surface I lie dreaming,haunting images, in all colours and black.Sunlit sometimes there is no sun there.I keep the dream below the surface,the cracked mask absolute.
— Wynand de Beer
When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, The Rock
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin’s “Ballade no. 1.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your tongue was spared by the darkness.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
How quiet it is,' Danny said, digging in his knapsack for the canteen full of water he had brought. 'You don’t realize how scary it is, having a whole mountain on top of you, until you’re in the dark as I was in that tunnel, or when you begin hearing the silence.''I didn’t know you could hear silence,' said Irene.'Then just listen.'They sat still, and Danny added, 'Put out the flashlights for a minute.'In the dark, they understood what he meant. All the familiar noises of the upper world were gone: the wind, the rustle of branches or leaves, the chirping of birds, the sounds of automobiles and doors slamming, and people laughing. There was nothing but the faint tinkle of droplets of water, each drop like a distant musical chime, and each one pursued by tiny echoes. Then, after such a note had sounded there would be a long and empty quiet in which they could hear their own breathing and the steady beating of their hearts. They found themselves straining their eyes to see something, anything — the slightest sign of light, but they could not even tell the difference between opening their eyes and shutting them.Irene burst out suddenly, 'Put on the lights!'Danny let out his breath with a whoosh. They all snapped on their lamps, and as the welcome light flooded the chamber, he said, 'It’s — it’s like being buried alive.''Don’t let’s try that experiment again,' Irene said, with a shiver. 'I just hope we get out of here before our flashlights give out.
— Jay Williams, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave
To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening thoughts; I couldn't help but feel spiritual in her presence.
— Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions
I walk the darkness with a smile.
— Wynand de Beer
A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?
— James Joyce, Ulysses
It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.
— Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper. I remember what my sister said long ago: You must control the darkness. You can’t ever give in to it. But the shadows want to make me happy, and I deserve a little happiness
— Justina Ireland, Promise of Shadows
She reminded me of a darkness, a darkness that I've missed.
— Dimitri Zaik
The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.
— Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.
— Larry Watson, Let Him Go
I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
When Darkness surrounds you, look for the stars. When Jealousy whispers, kill it with laughter. When Hate hurts you, love with all your strength.
— M.J. Abraham
Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now.
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
In the darkness time, let your passion and spirit lead you to make a better decision.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. Darkness befalls us all. There is simply no escaping that truth but rather than dwell in that dark place light your candle of faith, hold fast to it and let that light lead you home.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
— Alexandra Bracken, In Time
Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.
— Jess C. Scott, Playmates
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.
— Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark
Darkness does not leave up as easily as we would hope.
— Kami Garcia
...darkness is not everywhere - for here and there I find a few faces illuminated from within. Paper lanterns swaying among the dark trees.
— Carol Anne Borges
Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds
— hovering ancient land.
500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision," anddarkness helps us "see.
— Alija Izetbegović, Notes from Prison
This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte. We are all in the Dark, one with another. And, as the Inke stains the Paper on which it is spilt and slowly spreads to Blot out the Characters, so the Contagion of darkness and malefaction grows apace until all becomes unrecognizable. Thus it was with the Witches who were tryed by Swimming not long before, since once the Prosecution had commenced no Stop could be put to the raving Women who came forward: the number of Afflicted and Accused began to encrease and, upon Examination, more confess'd themselves guilty of Crimes than were suspected of. And so it went, till the Evil revealed was so great that it threatened to bring all into Confusion.And yet in the way of that Philosophie much cryed up in London and elsewhere, there are those like Sir Chris. who speak only of what is Rational and what is Demonstrated, of Propriety and Plainness. Religion Not Mysterious is their Motto, but if they would wish the Godhead to be Reasonable why was it that when Adam heard that Voice in the Garden he was afraid unto Death? The Mysteries must become easy and familiar, it is said, and it has now reached such a Pitch that there are those who wish to bring their mathematicall Calculations into Morality, viz. the Quantity of Publick Good produced by any Agent is a compound Ratio of his Benevolence and Abilities, and such like Excrement. They build Edifices which they call Systems by laying their Foundacions in the Air and, when they think they are come to sollid Ground, the Building disappears and the Architects tumble down from the Clowds. Men that are fixed upon matter, experiment, secondary causes and the like have forgot there is such a thing in the World which they cannot see nor touch nor measure: it is the Praecipice into which they will surely fall.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could understand how some people just gave up. This darkness was overwhelming.
— J.M. Northup, Fears of Darkness
There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.
— Deanna Herrmann
A farewell to my shadow is not my death
—  it’s my rebirth in darkness.
I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the iron arguments that Christians used. I saw the Thumbscrew—two little pieces of iron, armed on the inner surfaces with protuberances, to prevent their slipping; through each end a screw uniting the two pieces. And when some man denied the efficacy of baptism, or may be said, 'I do not believe that a fish ever swallowed a man to keep him from drowning,' then they put his thumb between these pieces of iron and in the name of love and universal forgiveness, began to screw these pieces together. When this was done most men said, 'I will recant.' Probably I should have done the same. Probably I would have said: 'Stop; I will admit anything that you wish; I will admit that there is one god or a million, one hell or a billion; suit yourselves; but stop.'But there was now and then a man who would not swerve the breadth of a hair. There was now and then some sublime heart, willing to die for an intellectual conviction. Had it not been for such men, we would be savages to-night. Had it not been for a few brave, heroic souls in every age, we would have been cannibals, with pictures of wild beasts tattooed upon our flesh, dancing around some dried snake f
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
but when a person’s so stuck in their own hole of darkness — it hurts like hell when someone shines a light on them. Your eyes have to adjust, and let’s just say it isn’t a pleasant experience; it’s why people stay there.
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
Theres something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're close, like you could reach out and touch them. But you cant because sometimes things look alot closer than they seem
— Kami Garcia, Sublimes creatures
Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!
— Ambrose Bierce, Can Such Things Be?
If you are still alive when you read this,close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black.
— Bill Knott
What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had beena more familiar facethan that of man —I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether free had given to solitude and darkness and silence only a more alluring interest and charm!
— Ambrose Bierce, The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
Fears hide within fears....
— Jacqueline Ripstein
Are you afraid of the dark?” I asked.“No. Monsters aren't real. This is real. I'm scared of what could happen when the lights go out.
— Bryant A. Loney, Exodus in Confluence
Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master.
— S.R. Ford
The darkness is no place to be in times like this.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.
— Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity
For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
— Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm
Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams.....their demons
— Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
— Pliny the Elder
Why do you assume I'm human?I wasn't born; I was created just like this.First I was an idea.Then I came into being, charged with a very important task.I've come to find the monster.
— Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now.
— Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and slithered close, wanting only to smother every last flicker of 
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul." *Chiki101*
— Chiki101
I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.
— Antonia Perdu
This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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, Paradise Incoming
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, Rebel Spring
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, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.I swear, I do.
— Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold
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, American Elsewhere
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, Optimism
There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
— Rae Hachton, Evermore
When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.
— Rita Stradling, The Lie Spinners
There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves
— Jomia Ann E. Pangilinan Darkness and Gratitude
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, Night Film
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, The Last Dragon
It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Two Sisters
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, Bloodstone
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, Dune
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
Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?
— A.P., Sabine
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, Big Machine
She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
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, The Spirit Master
You must often visit the darkness to get the people lost in the darkness out of there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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, Wantin
Ideology is the light that creates darkness.
— Robert Boswell, Century's Son: A Novel
Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
— Anne Sexton, Transformations
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, The Silence of the Lambs
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, Invisibility
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, Persephone's Orchard
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, Merrick
Darkness will never prevail. If you do not recognize the evil in our world, you will never stand up to it.
— Landon Parham, First Night of Summer
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, Anna Karenina
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, Castaway
Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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, The Best of Oprah's What I Know For Sure
Somehow I'd still managed to go all retarded at the sight of some handsome asshole with a nice smile.
— C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
If you could imagine the color of anger, it had been splashed over every wall. Rage, something dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade. The floor was bathed in a creeping shadow, a particular darkness that had seeped up into the walls.......
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.
— Sylvia Plath, Ariel
Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent.
— D.H. Lawrence
Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance
Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests.
— Abigail Biddinger
Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.
— Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love
These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.
— Brian Francis Slattery, Lost Everything
If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday
—  we are already in it.
Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I can hear clouds drifting across the sky! The worms beneath my feet…demand freedom from the darkness…the secret hopes of humankind…all of it trivial. I can see into other worlds…other universes…they’re calling out to me. They’ve always called to me! I never knew that until now, but now I know everything.
— Kirkland Ciccone, Conjuring the Infinite
Don’t be afraid of the darkness
—  just carry a light with you!
Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.
— James Agee, A Death in the Family
There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless places where one might nest for a night. But the depths of living pitch only visit the aristocracy of madmen and women who’ve unwittingly pledged fealty to the curse. For some, it outright ruins minds like a hound to fresh meat; for others, it wanes into the deepest parts of its less caustic sibling and waits for the time to strike, returning periodically through life like an incurable disease.
— Darrell Drake, Where Madness Roosts
Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
— Andrew Vachss, Flood
What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
After a few brief simple moments, he found her neck, kissing the nape as if it were a peach, grazing her skin barely, causing her to moan out a small tiny little whimper. Before she could take another rbreath, his lips met hers in rapture, and suddenly, she was lost within the tragic abyss of falling beneath a lovebinding spell.
— Keira D. Skye
Darkness is stronger than light
—  because light must struggle to exist
Life's markers are never just for one moment in time. Every event holds a key. Each builds upon the other and becomes an indicator towards a higher purpose.
— Nikki Rosen, Dancing Softly
How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch.
— Nikki Rosen, In The Eye Of Deception: A True Story
There was the bulge and the glitter, and there was the cold grip way down in the stomach as though somebody had laid hold of something in there, in the dark which is you, with a cold hand in a cold rubber glove. It was like the second when you come home late at night and see the yellow envelope of the telegram sticking out from under your door and you lean and pick it up, but don't open it yet, not for a second. While you stand there in the hall, with the envelope in your hand, you feel there's an eye on you, a great big eye looking straight at you from miles and dark and through walls and houses and through your coat and vest and hide and sees you huddled up way inside, in the dark which is you, inside yourself, like a clammy, sad little fetus you carry around inside yourself. The eye knows what's in the envelope, and it is watching you to see you when you open it and know, too. But the clammy, sad little fetus which is you way down in the dark which is you too lifts up its sad little face and its eyes are blind, and it shivers cold inside you for it doesn't want to know what is in that envelope. It wants to lie in the dark and not know, and be warm in its not-knowing.
— Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
where there is never sunshine darkness isn't a scary thing
— Peter Adejimi
I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving.
— Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
I am lost in my world,invisible - unknown.Moon please lend meyour light that someonewill me see me.
— Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability. I didn't want Evan to think I needed protecting. I pulled back my torment and let the numb blanket envelop me, pushing away the stirred memories, the noise of the crowd, and the trembling that still lay beneath the surface. I stared at the flames licking at the darkness and everything was lost as I sank deeper into nothingness.
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
All dark and comfortless.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear