"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

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"Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Darkness, Night, Fear, History

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Darkness, Light, Order, Present

"The dark might be dark, but at least we don't have to look at ourselves when we're standing in it."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Darkness, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"She committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Darkness, Suicide, Tragedy, Life

"Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Darkness, Devil, Humanity, Reflection, Image

"The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

Darkness, Despair, Suicide

"His words were almost soundless. 'I've gotten to a really dark place, Melly. The darkest place I've ever been.'You don't have to be there anymore, ' she told him gently. 'Don't you know what happens at the darkest point of the day?'He stroked her soft lower lip with the ball of one thumb. 'What?'She rubbed her fingers soothingly along his muscled forearms. 'A beautiful, brand - new day begins, and it's all fresh and full of promise.' She smiled into his gaze. 'That's why magic in the fairy tales happens at midnight, you know. When you reach that point, you have the power to change everything."

Thea Harrison, American Author

Darkness, Hope, Healing, Love

"The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

Darkness, Violence, Guilt, Death

"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Darkness, Light, Study

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Darkness, Light

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"Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now."

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

"The dark might be dark, but at least we don't have to look at ourselves when we're standing in it."

"She committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm."

"Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image."

"The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily."

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"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."

"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."

"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."

"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."

"From the end spring new beginnings."