Quotes of: Darkness Keyword

Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing that becomes everything there is. And what one sees is only a fraction of the trauma inflicted.

Sykosa

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.

Scandal of the Year

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

The Tale of Despereaux

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

Shit," Drake rubbed a hand over his face. Shit, shit, shit... "Shit," Drake said again.... "That about sums it up," Gabriel muttered.

Taste of Darkness

Pretty doll," rasped the dark haired vampire as he went about behind her, and she could feel his ravenous hunger practically radiating off him.

Theodora's Descent

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Thirst

The light lulls you into a false sense of security. But if the dark should come suddenly and silently, you’d stand out like black on night.

This Book Title is Invisible

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Optimism

Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake And behold there the constellations Of both hemispheres at once? -Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes

Orb Sceptre Throne

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Postcards from the Edge

Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the front entrance. A night breeze swooshed leaves throughout the parking lot.

Plenty of Fish

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

Peter Schlemihl's wundersame Geschichte

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

The Plague

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

A Parallel Life

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.

The Partner

Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

Prometheus Unbound

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Quicksilver

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

Reinventing Bach