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Darkness

«When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.»
«?You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. You?ll care only about the darkness and you?ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you?re some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you?ll be afraid to look away, you?ll be afraid to sleep.?»
«I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.»
«In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace»
Author: Sophocles | About: Darkness | Keywords: disgrace, in darkness
«...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.»
«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.»
«Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.»
«It's always darkest before the dawn»
Author: Proverb | About: Darkness | Keywords: darkest, dawn
«The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Darkness, Guilt, Sin | Keywords: commits, not guilty