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Darkness Quotes

"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Darkness, Uncertainty, Fear, Life

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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Darkness, Fault, Night, Woman

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"Crawled like a blind slug into the web."

"Crawled like a blind slug into the web."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Darkness, Blindness, Fear, Symbolism

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"There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more."

"There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Darkness, Truth, Power, Future, Life

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"There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle."

"There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Darkness, Despair, Isolation, Night

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"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

Darkness, Discovery, Writing

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"There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness."

"There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness."

Alexander Volkov, Russian Author

Darkness, Light, Mystery, Traveling

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"It was a dark story."

"It was a dark story."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Darkness, Story, Emotion, Mystery

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"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."

"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."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

Darkness, Discovery, Order

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"There are different kinds of darkness, Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. "There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. I pictured each. "There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good."

"There are different kinds of darkness, Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. "There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. I pictured each. "There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Darkness, Fear, Comfort, Ambiguity

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"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey."Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken."..."And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you."

"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey."Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken."..."And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Darkness, Desire, Fear, Control, Weakness

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"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Darkness, Truth, Regret, Inspirational, Wisdom

"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."

"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Darkness, Familiarity, Life, Change

"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Darkness, Hell, Desire, Connection

"Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future."

"Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Darkness, Hope, Light, Future

"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."

"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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Darkness, Guilt, Murder, Identity, Death

"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."

"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Darkness, Universe, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"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."

"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."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Darkness, Identity, Truth, Reflection

"Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle."

"Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Darkness, Body, Soul, Mortality, Religion

"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other."

"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other."

Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

Darkness, Light, Pain, Pleasure

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Darkness, Solitude

"Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light."

"Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Darkness, Seek, Light, Growth

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