Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped...

…in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain…

Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst...

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

I am the son of Hades. I go where I wish. The darkness is my birthright.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,A luminary...

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she’d run.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long....

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

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...

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It’s easy to forget that when you’re indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A...

I come to you for help. We’ve been silent far too long. Many of you have turned your backs on Arman. Many never bothered to know Him at all. But Arman is the One God....

Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

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....

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.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

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...

Life brings darkness so many times, and we feel down in this phase of darkness. But the true value of darkness only realizes when we face the darkness, until we look some sunshine within the...

But they can’t know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can’t get out of the dark hole. ‘Peace is here’ it whispers.

… only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane…

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

Light lost in dark. Dark died in light.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you’ll find something...

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.

they ask why do i look so sadthey wonder if there is something that makes me madhaven’t they understood it all by now? i’m neither mad nor sadi’m just a poet in a dark outfit...

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving throughout my body, the other cells letting it pass by, yielding to its...

As you have lost me now I feel pity for you you lost your star and you know soon it will get dark and just like me you will fade away in darkness forever❤

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

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...

There is darkness inside us all.It is true.Inside every human being,There is a tremendous and powerful capacity to commit deeds of evil.A force with the power to hurt others,To further ourselves by stepping on the...

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn’t darkness at all.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm...

It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in space as given in advance. It only gives nominal definitions for them, while...

Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there...

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls…

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...

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....

There is more to darkness than nightfall.