The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

Behind this smile in my faceLies the dark shadow of emptinessHiding from your eyes within my gazeConcealed with sham happiness.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

There’s a funny thing about light and darkness–like hope, you can never blot out either one completely. They always exist, side by side, bright light making shadows darker, darkness making the light more beautiful, a...

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...

We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces...

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought...

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in...

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

When a saint is lowered in darkness of the grave, then he is in light

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.

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,...

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....

May you follow the path of light.

You know, darkness is a funny thing. Little by little, it creeps up on you and before you know it, you can’t escape it

Living things don’t all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But...

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

The universe is amply supplied with night.

If your mind is misty, your life will be misty; if your mind is sunny, your life will be sunny! Your life will be the reflection of your mind, of your thoughts! If there is...

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

listening to the calmness of the female voice over tanoy as the steam train comes in, the sky is magical of red, blue and white as a dark cloud creeps in bringing tear drops of...

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.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most...

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness… how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

our love likestepping on to a planesitting down in a carwalking on unknown land will either take us to where we belongor throw us into darkness

…there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict – but I don’t see the world as defined by them.

In the Darkness, there’s always a Light which Shines Bright!

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.

When you’re scared – and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth...

Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

My shadow follows me during the day, and then surrounds me at night as it clones itself into complete darkness. Now that’s self-love.

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which...

Darkness is a defining characteristic of Rotters. But it’s worthy to remember that darkness is just that—it’s dark—and what is being concealed in the dark is not just the horrible and fearsome, it’s also the...

Like a pair of dead batteries, I felt energized. Love is the light in my Can of Darkness.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.

The darkness surrounding can envelop one,but if you light only one match, you have defeated it all.

We are going to your father,” Mrs. Which said. “But where is he?” Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a...

The light within us can always identify our mind’s darkness

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...

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

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes,the heart of the people is always right.

…you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can’t have a black one..

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.