Darkness quotations

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◆ I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

- Franz Kafka99

◆ I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

- L.J. Smith99

◆ 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.

- Rainer Maria Rilke99

◆ I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

- Og Mandino99

◆ One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

- Emily Dickinson99

◆ 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: by planting it there myself.

- Tana French99

◆ What makes night within us may leave stars.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

- Margaret Stohl99

◆ I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

- Erin Morgenstern99

◆ In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.

- Anonymous99

◆ When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

- Patrick Overton99

◆ 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 - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

- E.M. Forster99

◆ 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, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.

- William Styron99

◆ I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

- Libba Bray99

◆ 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.

- Pythagoras99