Best Darkness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 28

Source: The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton

“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”

Way Heart Ends Earth Black Water Darkness Sky Clouds Immense Tranquil Somber Heart Of Darkness Storm Clouds Overcast

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.”

Thinking Way I Can Ends Sometimes Matter Choices Fall Evil Pleasure Darkness Struggle Trouble Worst Bottom Climbs Pits Indulgence

Book:The Scapegoat

Source: The Scapegoat

“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.”

Love Needs Would Be Born Morning Darkness Fire Sea Broken Moon Blue Wings Wave Edges Weather Rays Crash Balconies

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.”

Night Wish Stars Darkness Sky

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered”

People Ifs Body Heaven Water White Vision Darkness Flower Arms Fine Green Flesh Necks Touched Length Pale Fitting Stretching Vines Carols White Flowers

Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.”

People Ifs Real Remember Evil Forget Darkness Disappear Holes Fades Burned

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling the corners. I lie in the dark, suffocating under horrible dispare, wishing I were dead. I sleep, then wake, then sleep. The sleep is filled with monstrous dreams that attack, cry out, and vanish, leaving me once more awake and staring into the darkness. Help me! My mind is screaming, but there is no one to hear.”

“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”

Men Soul Darkness Honesty Falsehood Armour Room With A View

Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night”

Heart Light Night Darkness Sky Brave Raised Warrior Velvet Darkness Of Night

Book:High Rhulain

Source: High Rhulain

“I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.”

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.”

Ifs Looks Eye Night Fall Black Lines Cities Behinds Darkness Sun Fire Sky Clouds Heavy East Burning Smoke Dawn Fallen Rising Sunset Horizon Thick Unseen Curtains Blanket Lifting Wool

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.”

Way Song Felt Grief Darkness Heard Terrible Singing Phoenix Lament

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.”

People Way I Can Past Lying Found Sleep Darkness Imagine Walking Comfortable Best Way Comment Funeral Corpses My Past Coffins Demise Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

“What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.”

Thinking Writing Different Darkness Communication Ought

Author:Franz Kafka

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”

Feelings Light Inspiration Inspiring Emotion Darkness Movement Emotional Addiction Apathy Transforming Synchronicity Memories Dreams Reflections

Author:Carl Jung

“When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?”

Way Light Water Lines Darkness Tree Breaths Dust Roof Power Lines

Book:The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.

Source: The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.”