Quotes About Darkness

"Aaah! Natural light! Get it off me! Get it off me!" -Barney Gumble, "The Simpsons"

"The bright day is done,
And we are for the dark."
-Iras, Antony & Cleopatra, 5:2

"Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness...
Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding."
-Lao-tsu

"My whole life is a dark room. One, big, dark, room." -Lydia, Beetlejuice

"I only smile in the dark." -Shirley Manson

"Curse not the darkness." -Midnyte Roze

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely." -Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Nobody knows what else darkness conceals." -Paul Ruskin

"You wanna party with the lights on,
Come on, I like the dark!"
-Sleater-kinney, "You're No Rock n Roll Fun"

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us." -Thoreau

"I'm going to turn on the light,
and we'll be two people in a room
looking at each other and wondering
why on earth we were afraid of the dark."
-Gale Wilhelm

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
-Sarah Williams

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