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The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine...

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We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the da...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My ...

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. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination cou...

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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...

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Numb the dark and you numb the light.

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I sudd...

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...

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And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in ...

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I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life...

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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

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For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea

Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, a...

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Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much li...

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There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes ...

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She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rath...

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Charles BaudelaireSelected Writings on Art and Literature

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our da...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

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And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

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A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The S...

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Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’...

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All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the da...

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Colum McCannLet the Great World Spin

I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo...

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It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...

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When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sl...

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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the...

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the gr...

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And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away...

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Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was l...

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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

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Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need ...

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In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

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Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as ...

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Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, u...

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There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind al...

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When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil ...

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Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

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Dean KoontzStrange Highways

In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, she...

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Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the dark...

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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along...

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Douglas CouplandHey Nostradamus!

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav...

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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his s...

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams n...

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Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

I turn away reluctant from your light,And stand irresolute, a mind undone,A silly, dazzled thing dep...

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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the da...

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False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary...

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You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do ha...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

Under the glass porte-cochère of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splat...

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The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p...

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Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...

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Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hu...

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised ...

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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are pe...

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Frederick BuechnerListening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant...

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The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your sh...

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These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from...

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I am the sword in the darkness.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...

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Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours...

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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...

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It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see noth...

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...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess co...

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In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certai...

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The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfi...

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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, ther...

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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f...

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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little ...

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

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Ther...

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