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When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We want to discover who we are without the burden of sight. It's easy to believe we are the same inside because we look so similar. Sanna says only in the dark can we know the truth, but I'm not so sure. Darkness conceals.
— Sara Grant, Neva
The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. There was no doubt about it. This was a sound audible only on evenings such as this.
— Shūsaku Endō, The Girl I Left Behind
From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and here, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches and trickle to earth, forming small white pools among the clumps of laurel. But these leaks were few and served only to accentuate the blackness of his environment, which his imagination found it easy to people with all manner of unfamiliar shapes, menacing, uncanny, or merely grotesque.He to whom the portentous conspiracy of night and solitude and silence in the heart of a great forest is not an unknown experience needs not to be told what another world it all is - how even the most commonplace and familiar objects take on another character. The trees group themselves differently; they draw closer together, as if in fear. The very silence has another quality than the silence of the day. And it is full of half-heard whispers, whispers that startle - ghosts of sounds long dead. There are living sounds, too, such as are never heard under other conditions: notes of strange night birds, the cries of small animals in sudden encounters with stealthy foes, or in their dreams, a rustling in the dead leaves - it may be the leap of a wood rat, it may be the footstep of a panther. What caused the breaking of that twig? What the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds? There are sounds without a name, forms without substance, translations in space of objects which have not been seen to move, movements wherein nothing is observed to change its place. Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! ("A Tough Tussle")
— Ambrose Bierce, Ghost Stories
I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.
— Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You
It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden)
— Nicholas Bella, Commanded
Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.
— Luis Buñuel
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Cassie fumbled helplessly beneath the shade of the ancient oak, still searching for her second shoe.The first had been easy to find, having landed close to where she had kicked it off; and when her hand had finally encountered it, she clutched it to her breast in a gesture of smug triumph. For one brief moment, she felt a twinge of sympathy for the sighted people who would never experience such sweet victory from a task as simple as finding a shoe.
— Melinda Cross
Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose
— T.S. Eliot
Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.
— Edward Herrmann
This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little.
— Ansem
It was so dark it was like noting was there in the room but us. Only the nothing was actually something because it filled my eyes and lungs and it sat on my shoulders.
— Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.
— Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
— Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
Even though my angel has forgiven me and rescued me, who on earth will save him, who cannot be allowed into the light of the sun, who has lost his name, who can only hide himself in the world of darkness?
— Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel
Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith took a deep breath and opened her eyes. She looked at Ian and did what took every ounce of will power she had
—  she walked away and out the doors. Ian watched as Lilith left the study and was shocked. He wanted her and she walked away from him. Then anger stormed his emotions and now he was royally pissed off. He was getting fucking tired of the cold and hot treatment she was giving him. Why the hell was she running?
And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage and the silver bicycle were already painted out by the darkness; most of the commuters too were already in place in their filing-drawer houses. A half-forsaken chasm of time .... 
— Kōbō Abe, The Ruined Map
Our sole illumination was a dim and foul-smellingblubber lamp, which really only served to make thedarkness visible.
— Frank A. Worsley, Endurance
The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.
— Thomas Merton, The Silent Life
When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
— Jeanette Coron
So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness.
— John Ruskin, Unto This Last
Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I found myself, lost inside the depths of my darkest days amazed to find the most of you watching me hoping i’d stay.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the individual specks of street and building lights as though in recompense.
— Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!
— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Thank you for undusting my true colors; or color: black... Oh, how I missed the darkness!
— Ahmed Mostafa
We thought she'd save him. We all hoped so much that she'd save him because it would have been like a fairy tale and when one had lived in the dark for so long it's very difficult not to believe in fairy tales.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.
— E. Elias Merhige
Daylight tricks you into thinking what you see is truth, lets you go through life thinking you know everything. But the truth is we are sleepwalkers. We walk through the night that is chaos and dark and forever keeps its truth to itself.
— Paul Lynch, Grace
The next time that you find yourself surrounded by darkness, I hope that you will consider that you need not necessarily look to the night skies in search of a guiding star to offer hope. You don’t essentially have to depend on a shooting star as a prospect or token that you’re now able to make a wish that may actually stand a chance of coming to pass.
— Mishi McCoy
All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.
— Clive Barker, Cabal
His presence fogged my mind, warmed my blood, kept the darkness at bay – maybe because he was the darkness itself.
— Emma Winters, Equal Parts
When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.
— Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns
For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Stars can't shine without darkness.
— Unknown
I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
— John M Sheehan
I don't like the dark arts, but I like darkness in art.
— Robert  Black
I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.
— K.  Webster
Darkness watches me from every angle. My only friend. From its own place within the silence, it speaks to me in a strange way. It whispers secrets in my ear, telling me this is where I’m meant to be. It’s so certain, not a trace of doubt. And I think . . . I think it may be right.
— T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
In the search of spark, we forget the beauty of darkness. We forget the purpose of the light.
— Nishikant, The Papery Onions
I haven’t been out driving at this time of night in many years, much less in an unfamiliar area. These are the things that scare you as you get older. You understand night all too well, all its attendant meanings. You try to avoid it, work around it, keep it from entering your house. Your weary, ornery body tells you to stay up late, sleep less, keep the lights on, don’t go into the bedroom—if you have to sleep, sleep in your chair, at the table. Everything is about avoiding the night. Because of that, I suppose that I should be scared out here in the dark, but I am finally past that, I think.(p.204)
— Michael Zadoorian, The Leisure Seeker
I serve the God of Isaiah 45:7 so when the darkness comes who gets your praises?
— John M Sheehan
It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.
— Heena Rathore P.
No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.
— Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea
A Kite in the Wind - with Love , Truth and Honesty - weathered A Wilderness of Voices, Through the Darkness, With Love
— Sandeep N. Tripathi
Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn’t mean they should.
— Kelly Moran, Redemption
The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One thing—one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.
— William H. Gass, The Tunnel
Darkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.
— Luna Marym
At a night like this, where it's just me and the yellow moon,I feel complete.
— Kamand Kojouri
Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Rumi Collection
There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
But Sara has spent enough time in the darkness to know that you often have to remain there for a long time before you’re ready for the light again.
— Harry Kalmer, 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg: 'n stadsroman
Imagine, if you will:A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
Every morning is a revolution against the darkness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Darkness humbles and demolishes the people
—  it destroy any country
The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation
— Sunday Adelaja
The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Darkness always tries to hide the truth!
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Truth is the greatest strength we have against the darkness.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Sometimes it is necessary to step into darkness alone and find your way back. To carry something with you into light you could not have found anywhere else.
— Emmi Itäranta, Kudottujen kujien kaupunki
Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing of yourself. Even those parts that are not so clean have value. In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life.
— LaShawnda Jones
O sun, heart of the heavens whose blood of lightInfuses the vigor which transmutes to azureThe black ice strangler of great space obscureI hate you, mask of gold, mist and fire, circularBlind monster blinding all the prey aroundYou who veil the impure dazzling phantasmTo the loving vertigo of my avid gazesThe visions of the colorless abyss of the voidReversed hollow truth-mask of the other world.
— Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.
— Trina M. Lee
When I was in the Navy, everyone fell under the purview of “navy gray”. It is the military’s way of reminding its enlisted personnel that they are all equal. Man or woman, black or white, young or old, everyone was navy gray. With God's grace I can proudly say a better understanding of this concept has helped me ameliorate disputes, mend fences that appeared hopeless and find light in the midst of darkness.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
The darkness you are in, is to make you feel the warmth of light that you aspire for.
— Damini Aggarwal
Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
— Jeffrey Fry
Darkness grew where it would and took what it wanted. It staked its claim and never let go. And no one else could pry you free of it.
— Carrie Ryan, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Never risk in the dark to search the light. Conversely, be light and shine in the darkness as a moon.
— Ehsan Sehgal
If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.
— Melina Marchetta
Sometimes I hear Mark laugh, and some days in the car the right song will come on the satellite radio and I'll feel him there tingling like a phantom limb. Like he's sitting there next to me in the dark. But I know that's not so. And I know that when you die there's not even darkness, and I know Mark and me won't meet on some cloud or in some pit of fire. And I guess that's a good thing. I couldn't take those eyes seeing what's become of me, those eyes looking down at my hands and my chewed-up ragged nails.
— Jordan Harper, Love and Other Wounds: Stories
To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society
— Sunday Adelaja
I’ll be at your side, till the darkness dies.
— Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic
There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side. With it's understanding we would all want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of.
— Jonathan Bingham
In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of.
— Anonymous
Don't be afraid of the dark.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Harry's Christmas Carol
The restraints were nothing, like paper. The rivets popped from the table and shot across the room. First his arms and then his legs. The room was dark but hid nothing from his eyes, because the darkness was part of him now. And inside him, far down, a great devouring hunger uncoiled itself. To eat the very world. To take it all inside him and be filled by it, made whole. To make the world eternal, as he was.
— Justin Cronin, The Passage
Darkness is going into the Unknown as we are ignorant of this place, until we understand and go and learn of the light, which is the truth bringing knowledge ..
— Fredg Morales
A pulse of surprise, of wicked delight against my mental shields, at the dark, membranous wings I knew were now poking over my shoulders. Every icy kiss of rain sent jolts of cold through me. Sensitive-so sensitive, these Illyrian wings.Lucien backed up at step. "What did you do to yourself?" I gave him a little smile. "The human girl you knew died Under the Mountain. I have no interest in spending immortality as a High Lord's pet
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness starts to stare back
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
Sometimes in the quest of searching the stars in others eyes, we fall into the never ending pit of darkness.
— Akshay Vasu
He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.
— Robert Frost, North of Boston
Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
All the light had fallen away from the world, with only the fog illuminated now. Even the stars struggled against the black, managing only the slightest pinpricks of twinkles through a gloom that was both everywhere and nowhere at once. It wasn't the dark of night; it was the tenebrous shadow of bad omens.
— C. Robert Cargill, Dreams and Shadows
How Many Michals Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?And the lamp was onDarkening up the roomAnd I sat, aloneLooking for the switchTo turn off the darkness
— Michal Coret, Becoming What I Might Be
All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
You are mad, Malloreigh!” It is an odd thing to have madness call you mad. Makes you think for a moment that you are sane, but also makes you think that it is truly sane. My mind hurts. I stopped thinking. I painted.
— D.J. LeMarr, The Worst Misery
I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a que
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
It's a trick question, Aquilla. A Mask is not made. She is remade. First she is destroyed. Stripped down to the trembling child that lives at her core. It doesn't matter how strong she thinks she is. Blackcliff diminishes, humiliates, and humbles her." "But if she survives, she is reborn. She rises from the shadow world of failure and despair so that she might become as fearful as that which destroyed her. So that she might know darkness and use it as her scim and shield in her mission to serve the Empire.
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
You’re the angel that my demons beg to make fall. The pureness and light that my darkness wants to extinguish.
— Harper Sloan, Locke
The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching
—  it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.
The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.
— Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling
A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow - alone in white not unlike being alone in black. She had also sailed a boat safely between land and land.
— Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Visibility limits your imagination of the ocean only as far as you can see, ten metres, fifteen at a stretch. But it's only in the utter black that you can feel the true scale, the volume and weight of that gaping unknowable drift between continents.
— Lauren Beukes, Moxyland
Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too.
— Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker
But it wasn’t mine anymore. It was his. I was his. Something in that flirted with the submissive I knew that lurked inside. How long had I waited and searched for the right man? One who could dominate me with more than just words? A sadist that liked the extreme side of life? That’s what I needed, and one with a darkness to match my own.
— Alaska Angelini, Rush
All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or all too shakable convention of faith. And they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion
This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it’s all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It’s the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, “Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” I’m revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It’s a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another’s life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.
— Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
When night comes, something speaksfrom that soft, fragrant wilderness.It says, the heart is not a door. But it opens.We feel in the dark for the hinge.
— Carole Glasser Langille, In Cannon Cave
We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.
— Mike Bond, Killing Maine
Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.
— Ron Brackin
Maybe if she'd invited him into the forest all those years ago, things would have ended differently. But she doubted it. Darkness grew where it would and took what it wanted. It staked its claim and never let go.And no one could pry you free of it.
— Carrie Ryan, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big, for the father who knows what has happened to him... I try to explore him little deeper, but so far to go in the darker without a light...!?
— Deyth Banger, It's not a happy
All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or the all too shakable convinction of faith. And if they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Darkness is a strange thing — it is both infinite and confining; it holds you tight in its grasp, but it holds you suspended in a void. Silence operates in a similar way. Slowly the two combine to become a threat.("Come Into My Parlour")
— Reggie Oliver
The world goes quiet and warm.I am dying, he thinks, I have failed and there will be nothing left, nothing but ash and hungering darkness.Something within him dims, fluttering to nothing like a flame fading to cold embers.He tries to raise his sword.He is falling…He was…… running the ashes of a dead world through his fingers.
— John  French
Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.
— Keith Shaver
The night is what allows us to see the stars. Darkness is nothing less than a thousand sunlights.
— Tiffanee Dee Duran
The expanse of space stretched out before them, causing Andi's eyelids to droop against her will. Before she knew it, darkness had claimed her.
— Sasha Alsberg, Zenith Part 1
Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn when they should quit – in the embrace of the dark everything becomes what it really is. People fear the dark but unlike the light it does not lie to you. In the dark you can go where you long to be.
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy.
— Emma Cline
Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
If the dark side wants you, it will come to you regardless of what you try to do to avoid it
— Stan Schatt, Hello Again
Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.
— Crispin Best
There is a demon inside of me. Not a literal one, of course, because such things don't exist. Not that I've ever seen anyway. But there might as well be because I can feel something deep down that doesn't belong in this world, a darkness that permeates my being and shadows the world around me. I don't usually let it hurt anyone – not intentionally – but it is ravenous. It demands to be fed. Sated. Set loose every now and again. Most people can't handle my demon.
— C.M. Stunich, Taboo Unchained
If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.
— John Fowles, The Collector
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. I thought how terrible the nights must have been in a time when men knew the things were there and were deadly. But no, that's wrong. If I knew they were there, I would have weapons against them, charms, prayers, some kind of alliance with forces equally strong but on my side. Knowing they were not there made me defenseless against them and perhaps more afraid.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.
— John Fowles, The Collector
Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast.
— C.M. Rayne, Dark Oracle
Trying to destroy darkness is like trying to crush water. It will always be a part of you, whether you admit it or not.
— C.M. Rayne, Dark Oracle
There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is only one time of absolute silence. Halfway between the dark of night and the light of morning, all animals and crickets and birds fall into a profound silence as if pressed quiet by the deep quality of the blackest time of night...This silence is how I know it is not yet dawn, nor is it the middle of the night, but it is the place of no-time, when all things sleep most deeply, when their guard is dozing
— Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Grandma, please don’t go. I’m frightened., Grandma. I need you!” “…never be afraid, Cassie. There’s nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it…
— L.J. Smith, The Captive Part II / The Power
I am the sword in the darkness.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
She always walked under the arches of nightsAnd everywhere she wentShe leftThe mark of broken things.
— Paul Éluard, Capital of Pain
I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.
— Lizbeth Gabriel, The Theater Of Dusk
When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
If you focus on the sunshine in life, you will see the darkness fade.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Darkness is my friend, and my biggest enemy" Temporary dark and deep
— JIGSAW PUZZLE
Foolishness is darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I see best in the dark.
— Jean Nicole Rivers
Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonightSparkling for moon's spiced silver biteUpon skin of darkness, loving night moreStorm begins unlocking cold wind's door
— Munia Khan
Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug.
— Marie Lu, The Rose Society
We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
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, Coraline
She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.
— Stephen King, The Stand
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, The Stand
It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.
— Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
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, Wink Poppy Midnight
I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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, The True Deceiver
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, Painting Angels
It's like someone took the darkness of the universe and put it into your eyes... You became a slave to the monsters living in you. You were light, but now you allow it be seen.
— Kenza Slaoui
You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.
— A.D. Posey
Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
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, The Sympathizer
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, Halloween Nightmares
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, Nothing is here...
Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
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, Edge of Wild
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, The Rose Society
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 Rose Society
The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.
— Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter
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, Think Great: Be Great!
White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey
— Erik Tanghe
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, Torn: A Dark BDSM Romance Novel
By walking on the path of unhappiness you can learn the things that can never be learned on the path of happiness! He who knows well only the light is very poor
—  he who knows well the darkness besides the light is very rich!
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, Dissolve
You can only diffuse light in dark places.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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, Darkfall
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, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
No truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
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
You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.
— C.M. Rayne, The Forbidden Land of Andara
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Into the darkness with the light of the moon beaming upon me. Bathing in the luminosity of it awakening the demon that is me!
— Eve Masters, Close Friends
Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.
— Osman Welela, Reddrops
Being alone in the dark - surrounded by silence, frightful. Thoughts breathe a life of their own; twisting and turning on each other as enemies unto themselves.
— Veronica Purcell, In Anwar's Care
The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
To die this way seems so random, so trivial. I have been robbed of meaning before being robbed of life. To die in darkness, alone -- for what purpose was I ever alive. It is as if I emerged from darkness into delusion, then sank back into darkness forever.
— Carolyn Ives Gilman, Dark Orbit
I'm crazy and going crazier, and I don't know how to stop it.I don't know how to stop this hurrible darkness from eating me alive, and no one in the world is going to help me.
— Sara Wolf, Brutal Precious
Reality tastes like ashes
— Azereth Skivel
Be careful of what you say and do in life, you never know who's watching.
— Mark McQuillen, Valkyrie: Darkness Awaits
We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
In the daylight, order ruled, fences stood, how-do-you-do's and polite nods were the recipe. But at night, darkness rendered everything still and hush and secret. Minnie was a curator of secrets.
— Kiersten White, In the Shadows
People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences.
— Sunday Adelaja
When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is no darkness like that of a confined space.
— Lauren DeStefano, Fever
I will say only this - when le prête is in the right mood, he can make even the devil afraid to turn his back
— Tiffany Reisz, The Saint
Under the glass porte-cochère of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splatter down and flatten to dark stains on the sidewalk. The air became grey and opalescent; a solitary light suddenly outlined a window over the way; then another light; then a hundred more danced and glimmered into vision. Under his feet a thick, iron-studded skylight turned yellow; in the street the lamps of the taxicabs sent out glistening sheens along the already black pavement. The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Doctor Gilyard was right, Juliet and I do have a lot in common. She lost her mother, I lost my mother. She lost her father, I lost my father. She had to start again, I had to start again. She had to pretend to be someone else, I had to pretend to be someone else. But where she was better for it, I was worse. Where she used what happened to make her stronger, I held on to it. I let it distil into something filthy and black. And I hated her for that. Hated her.
— Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise
What is fear but darkness
— Geoffrey Storm, Progeny of Gods: Vertuém Destiny
Darkness, that is, ignorance, limits our visibility.
— Sunday Adelaja
Remember, you are the light of love in the darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning
— Priyavrat Thareja
In our moments in the sun beware of casting dark shadows.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning.
— Sunday Adelaja
God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position.
— Sunday Adelaja
Ann put the oven to heat. She washed the lamb under the tap, turning it around to clean the entire leg. Then it was dried with a paper towel, stretched out on the cutting board to be hammered flat, and rubbed with salt and rosemary she took from the kitchen window. She waited for the oven to reach two hundred. The cleaned scent of the meat and the clatter of the water in the skink, the branches of rosemary, the dogs finding each other’s ears in the evening, the children being called indoors, servants standing on the road for the Indian bus, and the rising heat of the oven against the remaining heat of the day made her aware of her own happiness. This happiness was like the sea wind when the temperature of the water and the land reversed and everything was free in new darkness.
— Imraan Coovadia, Tales of the Metric System
You see, Dr. Sherrington,' the devil said, 'we are more alike than you think.' He got up again on all fours looking in the direction of the voice. It was time to face the devil.
— Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.
— Sunday Adelaja
I have found so much beauty in the dark,as I have found a lot of horror in the light.
— Azereth Skivel
I will vanish in the morning light
—  I was only an invention of darkness.
I found a way to see in the dark. Close your eyes.
— J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light.
— Debasish Mridha
No matter what happens in the outside world, as long as you have faith in yourself, no darkness can touch you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.
— Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.
— Patrick Carman, The Dark Planet
I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.
— Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.
— Suman Pokhrel