Ian Mcewan Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

  Ian Mcewan

  Light, Darkness, Everyday

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.163, Random House

• He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

  Ian Mcewan

  Heart, Darkness, Lines

• This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.

  Ian Mcewan

  Fall, Simple, Safety

• I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

  Ian Mcewan

  Believe, Thinking, Darkness

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