When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we...

I didn’t know what darkness was until I lost you

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no natural outlet or relief,In word, or sigh, or tear.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Acquainted with the NightI have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by...

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double,...

What are you going to do with all that dark?Find a way to glow in it.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts – somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is...

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

…darkness is not everywhere – for here and there I find a few faces illuminated from within. Paper lanterns swaying among the dark trees.

Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling...

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it’d find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.”[Q&A with...

The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul.” *Chiki101*

The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are...

Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what’s before us. But what is it we’re afraid of really? Not the...

It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can’t even see?

I will rather walk alone in the light than to live in the dark.

You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave

Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might...

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

…in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights – and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses…lie abandoned by you…

When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light.

Weston: Look at my outlook. You don’t envy it, right?Wesley: No.Weston: That’s because it’s full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?Wesley: Yes.Weston: Yes, you do. I...

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn’t find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how:...

The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.

her love was like jelly of the moonlight tempting to undress my darkness

I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of...

You’re not like other Wasps.””Aren’t I?” Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. “No doubt you’ve killed my kinsmen by the score.””A few,” Salma allowed.”Well, next time you shed my kinden’s blood, think on...

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Hold on to the darkness… I will come looking for your light.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

Stars are God’s way of showing us that light can survive the darkness and shine through – that there is hope; even in dark times. That the darkness isn’t all there is.

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)

Helen Kelleresque.

You’re right. I think we’ve both had enough darkness. I want to live in light.

Darkness doesn’t fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

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...

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

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

Darkness gives free rein to the mind’s worst imaginings