Quotes about Darkness
I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
- Cormac McCarthy
The nights now only slightly less black. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
- Cormac McCarthy
He'd long been wearing the underclothes of his female victims but now he took to appearing in their outerwear as well. A gothic doll in illfit clothes, its carmine mouth floating detached and bright in the white landscape.
- Cormac McCarthy
When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness the frail blue shape of it looked like the pitch of some last venture at the edge of the world. Something all but unaccountable. And so it was.
- Cormac McCarthy
He was sat as before save headless, drenched in blood, the cigarillo still between his fingers, leaning toward the dark and smoking grotto in the flames where his life had gone. Glanton rose. The men moved away. No one spoke. When they set out in the dawn the headless man was sitting like a murdered anchorite discalced in ashes and sark. Someone had taken his gun but the boots stood where he'd put them.
- Cormac McCarthy
It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness, putting forth lilies and snakes
- DH Lawrence
In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.
- DH Lawrence
Put the lights out, we shall see better.
- DH Lawrence
And it seemed she was like the sea, nothing but dark waves rising and heaving, heaving with a great swell, so that slowly her whole darkness was in motion, and she was Ocean rolling its dark, dumb mass.
- DH Lawrence
But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.
- Walt Whitman
To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
- Wendell Berry
That we were made to want and give love. That no matter how dark the night, midnight will pass. No darkness, no matter how dark, can hold back the second hand. Whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you hope it or not, whether you build a wall around your soul and cut out your eyes, wait a few hours and the sun will crack the skyline and the darkness will roll back like a scroll.
- Charles Martin