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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. -- Bill Bryson
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. -- Marina Oswald
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. -- Jean Baudrillard
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. -- Marguerite Duras
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. -- David O. McKay
Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage. -- Luke Evans
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness. -- Richard Jefferies
I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night. -- Shanley Caswell
I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark. -- Louise Nurding
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. -- James Wolcott
For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous. -- Stacey Snider
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. -- Sam Abell
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. -- Julia Cameron
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. -- Thomas Wolfe
Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? -- James Wolcott
Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior. -- Luanne Rice
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. -- Brian Greene
Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful! -- Anne Bishop
In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness. -- Rajneesh
The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness. -- William Shakespeare
Through the darkness of night, Light will lead the way. -- C.L. Parker
Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling. -- Luis Bunuel
You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness. -- Samuel Beckett
Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. -- John Milton
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness. -- Louis Zamperini
Every sunrise gives you reason to hope. Every darkness of night teaches you patience. -- Debasish Mridha
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. -- Ovid
We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses. -- David Paul
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. -- Joanna Baillie
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light. -- Wendell Berry
Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness. -- Jason E. Hodges
When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide. -- Truth Devour
Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night. -- Chess Desalls
The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed -- T. D. Jakes
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness -- Pablo Neruda
In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me. -- Miriam Joy
comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop. -- Wendy Mass
What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language. -- Michael Ondaatje
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. -- Samuel Daniel
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. -- George D. Prentice
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. -- Samuel Johnson
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. -- Stanislaw Lem
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light -- Sarah McLachlan
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. -- Victor Hugo
Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars. -- Enya
A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed. -- Ace Antonio Hall
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. -- Walt Whitman
Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues"- 1654 -- Esmerelda Jane Forstine
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen. -- Shannon L. Alder
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night. -- Isaac Watts
We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst. -- William Hill
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness? -- Amy Lowell
The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul. -- Caroline Myss
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. -- Jeanette Winterson
When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph. -- Larry Watson
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. -- Pope Francis
How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! -- John Milton
The Witch can gaze clearly into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche just as the full moon can light up the darkness of night. -- Raven Grimassi
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness"¦ -- Guillermo del Toro
Help me reach a friend in darkness; Help me guide him through the night. Help me show thy path to glory By the Spirit's holy light. . . . -- Lorin F. Wheelwright
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. -- Frederick Buechner
The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable. -- Katherine McIntyre
Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day. -- Henry Rollins
..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling. -- Mark Haddon
The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps. -- Irina Serban
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky. -- Gregory David Roberts
How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness. -- Ivan Panin
But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night -- Brian Jacques
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all. -- Alexandre Dumas
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?* -- William Shakespeare
All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling -- Munia Khan
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile. -- Sri Chinmoy

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