I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
attr. Helen Keller, from interviews on the vaudeville circuit
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Like having eyes but keeping them always closed, so that you didn't even realize that you were seeing darkness; and then one day the eye opened, and saw the world.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
attr. Edna O'Brien
Coaching by the stars, night-walking -- all my best thoughts, I find, come to me that way. Poetry, like devilry, likes darkness.
Joseph Campbell, Leaves from my Note-book on Tramp in Donegal
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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 Wiliams, "The Old Astronomer"
NOT Galileo, by the way—that attribution is myth.
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We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness.
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale