#darkness

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#paranormal #tattoos #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”) ↗

— George Sterling

#armageddon #darkness #death #death

Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black? ↗

— Annabel Pitcher

#dream #friendship #light #pretend #dreams

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground. ↗

— Paula Cole

#darkness #get #ground #happiness #huge

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#among #angel #back #darkness #fallen

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#future #illuminates #longer #past #spirit

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

— Desmond Tutu

#being #darkness #despite #hope #light

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#safety #safety

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

I am lost in my world, invisible - unknown. Moon please lend me your light that someone will me see me. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#darkness #invisible #lonely #lost #poetry