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Darkness Quotes - Page 41

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

James Joyce (2016). “DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead”, p.90, e-artnow

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.50, Penguin

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Iris Murdoch (1978). “The Nice and the Good”, p.172, Penguin

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1569, e-artnow

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.203

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.160, New World Library

We move between two darknesses.

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.76, RosettaBooks

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing