Blackness Quotes - Page 4

• The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

  William Hope Hodgson

  Fall, Dark, Night

  William Hope Hodgson (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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• The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

  John Hawkes

  Should, Fishes, Barbs

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• It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

  Charles Duke

  Space, Texture, Earth

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• Love comes in every color, but the fact is...
  I never needed 50 Shades of Grey,
  Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness.

  Phonte

  Rap, Light, Color

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• I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

  Sara Gruen

  Morning, Giving Up, Sleep

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• I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me.

  Andrew McMahon

  Dark, Night, Destiny

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• The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).

  James H. Cone

  Mean, Ghetto, White

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

  Thomas Marshburn

  Distance, Space, Three

  "My Conversation With an Astronaut". Interview with Ben Arnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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• On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Religious, Ignorance

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
  and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror
  and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing
  and the night cold and the night long and the river
  to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning
  and blackness ahead

  Robert Hayden

  Running, Fall, Night

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.

  John Stott

  Stars, Dark, Night

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.34, InterVarsity Press

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• Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Failing, Someday, Disappear

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press

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• The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Dark, Moon, White

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• ... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.

  William Beebe

  Stars, Ocean, Eye

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• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

  Charles Duke

  Ocean, Clouds, Sight

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

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• Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

  Rumi

  Teaching, Iron, Black

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

  Paul Davies

  Dwarves, Space, Finals

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.48, Basic Books

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• Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Sky, Sorrow

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• When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Mud, Void

  Song: Shelter from the Storm

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• You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Kissing, Media

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• Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Cutting, Boys

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