I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their...

Nice jewelry and a boy's corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

It is not real, he whispered. This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe...

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark

At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.

A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness

Nature is Satan's church.

We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their thorns one - by - one and they do the same for us. Love is also when we pluck the thorns out of our...

All I know is a door into the dark

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me...

It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete...

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right?Wesley: No.Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?Wesley:...

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the...

During last night's insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a...

Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead...

...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac...