Darkness Quotes - Page 21

• ‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

  Jim Butcher

  Fighting, Different, Enough

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.586, Penguin

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• You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Moving, Sleep, Past

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• In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Keys, Prison, Should

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2007). “The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• ... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Daughter, Dark, Light

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• Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light

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• Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Army, Daggers

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• Darkness bound them closer than light.

  Orson Scott Card

  Light, Bounds

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.272, Macmillan

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• Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

  J.R. Ward

  Light, Take Me, Light Of My Life

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• I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Mean, Paradise, Ifs

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.385, Random House

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• One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

  Franz Kafka

  Biblical, Green, Dove

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, People, Evil

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

  Jim Butcher

  Wall, Night, Light

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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• I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

  Shelagh Delaney

  House, Not Afraid, Darkness Inside

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• I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wall, Men, Light

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.817, Bantam

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• They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

  Karen Maitland

  Blessed, Men, Waiting

  Karen Maitland (2011). “The Gallows Curse”, p.126, Penguin UK

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• To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

  Yann Martel

  Creating, Long, Doubt

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, Blind, Annoyance

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fire, Ice, Heaven

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• Darkness is so predictable.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Predictable

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

  P. C. Cast

  Frodo

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• It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Taken, Cookies

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Fall, Passion

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• The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

  P. C. Cast

  Fire, Light, Sight

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• You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

  Dean Young

  Moving, Life Is Hard, Sometimes

  Dean Young (2002). “Skid”, University of Pittsburgh Press

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