top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Darkness quotes
"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."
"I will see you again,' Hades promised. 'I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.' 'Now I can't tell if you're joking.' Hades's eyes glittered as his form began to fade. 'Then perhaps we are alike in some important ways.' The god vanished."
"I have a face where half is mine and half is not, it is hard to see a difference when you stand in front of me under the light as both my eyes shines equally. But the day you step into the darkness I hold inside me you will see my face the way it is and it will end up changing your whole world related to me forever."
"Deep darkness enhances the brightness and beauty of a little lamp."
"It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!"
"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."
"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."
"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."
"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."
"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order."
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."
bottom of page