darkness Quotes

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:loneliness darkness

“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:heart darkness eyes

“you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

topic:reason darkness

“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:hope darkness light

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:evil darkness

“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:darkness light loss

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