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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Finsternis_Natur.jpg/440px-Finsternis_Natur.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption> Have you <a href="/wiki/Understood" class="mw-redirect" title="Understood">understood</a> the vast expanse of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>? Tell me, if you <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> of this. In which direction does the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> reside? And where is the <a href="/wiki/Place" class="mw-redirect" title="Place">place</a> of darkness? <br /> ~ <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Book of Job</a> 38 <a href="/wiki/NWT" class="mw-redirect" title="NWT">NWT</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg/220px-Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg/330px-Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg/440px-Dunkle_Kellertreppe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3911" data-file-height="5239" /></a><figcaption> It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, <br /> Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. <br /> It lies behind stars and under hills, <br /> And empty holes it fills. <br /> It comes first and follows after <br /> Ends life, kills laughter. <br /> —<a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Hobbit" title="The Hobbit">The Hobbit</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness" class="extiw" title="w:Darkness">Darkness</a></b> is the opposite of brightness, and is a relative or total absence of visible light. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Darkness&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There was darkness in the beginning, hidden by darkness. <ul><li>Rigveda 10.129.3 , translated and quoted in Hans Hock, Through a glass darkly: Modern racial interpretations vs. textual and general prehistoric evidence on arya and dasa/dasyu in Vedic society. 145-174. Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, interpretation, and ideology, Proceedings of the International Seminar on Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-27 October, 1996, ed. by Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav M. Deshpande. Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, 3. 1999</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I see skies of blue and clouds of white <br /> The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night <br /> And I think to myself: what a wonderful world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, <i>What a Wonderful World</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Now in darkness, world stops turning <br /> ashes where the bodies burning.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath" title="Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a>, <i>War Pigs</i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Paranoid (album)">Paranoid</a></i>. Written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" class="extiw" title="w:Ozzy Osbourne">Ozzy Osbourne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi" class="extiw" title="w:Tony Iommi">Tony Iommi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" class="extiw" title="w:Geezer Butler">Geezer Butler</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ward" class="extiw" title="w:Bill Ward">Bill Ward</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>You want it darker<br />We kill the flame</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Want_It_Darker" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:You Want It Darker">You Want It Darker</a></i> (2016)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In brightest day, in blackest night <br /> No evil shall escape my sight <br /> Let those who worship evil's might <br /> Beware my power...Green Lantern's light! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Green_Lantern" title="Green Lantern">Hal Jordan</a>'s oath, created by John Broome and Gil Kane</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Dark as pitch. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Bunyan" title="John Bunyan">John Bunyan</a>, <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i> (1678), Part I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,<br />The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;<br />The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,<br />And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need<br />Of aid from them—she was the Universe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://readytogoebooks.com/Lb-Drk85.htm">Darkness</a></i> (1816).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Men will seem to see new destructions in the sky.</b> The flames that fall from it will seem to rise in it and to fly from it with terror. <b>They will hear every kind of animals speak in human language. They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness.</b> O! marvel of the human race! What madness has led you thus! <b>You will speak with animals of every species and they with you in human speech. You will see yourself fall from great heights without any harm and torrents will accompany you, and will mingle with their rapid course.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, <i>The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci</i> (1938), <i>XX Humorous Writings</i>, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There's no earthly way of knowing <br /> Which direction we are going <br /> There's no knowing where we're rowing <br /> Or which way the river's flowing <br /> Is it raining? <br /> Is it snowing? <br /> Is a hurricane a-blowing? <br /> Not a speck of light is showing <br /> So the danger must be growing <br /> Are the fires of hell a-glowing? <br /> Is the grisly reaper mowing? <br /> Yes, the danger must be growing <br /> 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing <br /> And they're certainly not showing <br /> Any signs that they are slowing! <ul><li>Willie Wonka, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" class="extiw" title="w:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, Pg. 84-85 (1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness. <ul><li>About <a href="/wiki/Inana" class="mw-redirect" title="Inana">Inana</a>, in <i>A Hymn to Inana</i> (23rd century BCE) by <a href="/wiki/Enheduanna" title="Enheduanna">Enheduanna</a> , lines 49-59 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm">[1]</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Darkness which may be felt. <ul><li>Exodus, 10:21.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Darkness will cover the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>, and thick gloom the nations ... <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/23/60">Isaiah 60:2</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have you <a href="/wiki/Understood" class="mw-redirect" title="Understood">understood</a> the vast expanse of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>? Tell me, if you <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> of this. In which direction does the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> reside? And where is the <a href="/wiki/Place" class="mw-redirect" title="Place">place</a> of darkness? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Book of Job</a> 38 <a href="/wiki/NWT" class="mw-redirect" title="NWT">NWT</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There was an old woman who lived in a room. And, like all of us, was frightened of the dark. But who discovered in a minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. Object lesson for the more frightened amongst us, in or out, of the Twilight Zone. <ul><li>As spoken by Rod Serling in <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a> <i>Nothing in the Dark</i> written by George Clayton Johnson</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I'm giving you a <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a> call to tell you how I <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> <br /> I want to drive you through the night, down the hills <br /> I'm gonna tell you something you don't want to <a href="/wiki/Hear" class="mw-redirect" title="Hear">hear</a> <br /> I'm gonna show you where it's dark, but have no <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavinsky" class="extiw" title="w:Kavinsky">Kavinsky</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcall_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Nightcall (song)">Nightcall</a></i> (2010).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, "Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in <i>Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community?</i> (1967), p. 62.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Dispossessed_(1974)" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">The Dispossessed</a></i>, ch. 13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Black and more black the midnight grew,<br />Black and more black was the water’s hue ;<br />Then a ghastly sound on the silence broke,<br />And I thought of the dead beneath the oak. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <i>Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835</i> (1834), 'St. Knighton’s Kieve'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Evangeline</i> (1847), Part II, V, line 108.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For each of us as women, there is a dark place within where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, “Beautiful and tough as chestnut/stanchions against our nightmare of weakness” and of impotence. These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Audre_Lorde" title="Audre Lorde">Audre Lorde</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Outsider" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sister Outsider">Sister Outsider</a>: Essays and Speeches</i>. Crossing Press. 1984. p. 36. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89594-142-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89594-142-8">ISBN 978-0-89594-142-8</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3ASister+Outsider%7CSister+Outsider%5D%5D%3A+Essays+and+Speeches&rft.date=1984&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B36&rft.pub=Crossing+Press&rft.isbn=978-0-89594-142-8&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Darkness"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief<br />On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair<br />It has mantled a world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joaquin_Miller" title="Joaquin Miller">Joaquin Miller</a>, <i>From Sea to Sea</i>, Stanza 4; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 160-61.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yet from those flames<br />No light, but rather darkness visible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i> (1667; 1674), Book I, line 62.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I understand that the word ‘occult’ means hidden, but surely that is not meant to be the final state of all this information, hidden forever. I don’t see why there is any need to further obscure things that are actually lucid and bright. Language and strange terminology – to keep them as some private mystery. I think there is too much darkness in magic. I can understand that it is part of the theatre. I can understand <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a> – who I think was a great intellect that was sometimes let down by his own flair for showmanship — but he did a lot to generate the scary aura of the magician that you find these sad, Crowleyite fucks making a fetish of. The ones who say ‘oh we’re into Aleister Crowley because he was the wickedest man in the world, and we’re also into <a href="/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Charles Manson</a> because we’re bad. And we are middle-class as well, but we’re bad’. There are some people who seek evil – I don’t think there is such a thing as evil – but there are people who seek it as a kind of Goth thing. That just adds to the murk to what to me is a very lucid and flourescent subject. What occultism needs is someone to open the window, it’s too stuffy and it smells. Let’s get some fresh air, throw open the curtains – I can’t go for that posturing, spooky guy stuff. When they wanted me to do Fortean TV it became apparent that they wanted me to be Spooky Bloke. But I’m not actually trying to look spooky. I dress in black because it makes me look less fat, it’s as simple as that. It’s not a gothic flourish. I don’t want to be thought of as a figure of mystery or a master of the occult, surely this is about illumination, casting light on things. I’m an illuminist, that’d do for me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a><i> De Abaitua interview</i> (1998)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning. <ul><li>"Rust" Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, <a href="/wiki/True_Detective_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="True Detective (TV series)">True Detective (TV series)</a>, <i>Form and Void</i>, written by Nic Pizzolatto</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Haunted trees<br /> covered behind the curtains of their own leaves<br /> stare at the dark<br /> from the fringe of streets.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, <i>In Midnight Street</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Creation does not cease<br /> just because there is darkness!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, <i>In Midnight Street</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> is the ally of those who <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a>. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who <a href="/wiki/Disbelieve" class="mw-redirect" title="Disbelieve">disbelieve</a> - their allies are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taghut" class="extiw" title="w:Taghut">Taghut</a>. They take them out of the light into darknesses. Those are the <a href="/wiki/Companions" class="mw-redirect" title="Companions">companions</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">the Fire</a>; they will abide <a href="/wiki/Eternally" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternally">eternally</a> therein. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> 2:257</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Or (the state of a disbeliever) is like the darkness in a vast deep <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a>, overwhelmed with a great wave topped by a great <a href="/wiki/Wave" title="Wave">wave</a>, topped by dark <a href="/wiki/Clouds" title="Clouds">clouds</a>, darkness, one above another, if a <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a> stretches out his <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a>, he can hardly <a href="/wiki/Eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Eye">see</a> it! And he for whom God has not appointed light, for him there is no light. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> 24:40</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Absolutely have to have dark in order to have light. [...] Gotta have opposites – dark and light, light and dark – continually in a painting. If you have light on light, you have nothing. If you have dark on dark, you basically have nothing. [...] You know, it's like in life: you've gotta have a little sadness once in a while, so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Ross" title="Bob Ross">Bob Ross</a>, <i>The Joy of Painting</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-z06i6HCs&t=20m36s">"Mountain Ridge Lake"</a> (Season 23 Episode 3)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Brief as the lightning in the collied night,<br />That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,<br />And ere a man had power to say, Behold!<br />The jaws of darkness do devour it up. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i> (c. 1595-96), Act I, scene 1, line 144.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The charm dissolves apace,<br />And as the morning steals upon the night,<br />Melting the darkness, so their rising senses<br />Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle<br />Their clearer reason. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i> (c. 1610-1612), Act V, scene 1, line 64.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Light must be saved for those moments when the night is dark, when the moon doesn't appear in the sky. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, <i>Differences</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And out of darkness came the hands<br />That reach thro' nature, moulding men. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a></i> (1849), CXXIV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Concern with this <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> is darkness in the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>, but concern with the <a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">Hereafter</a> is light in the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uthman" title="Uthman">Uthman</a>, <i>Al-Isti'ad li Yawm al-Mia'd, p. 9</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, <br /> Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. <br /> It lies behind stars and under hills, <br /> And empty holes it fills. <br /> It comes first and follows after <br /> Ends life, kills laughter. <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hobbit" title="The Hobbit">The Hobbit</a></i> Ch.5, written by <a href="/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien" class="mw-redirect" title="J.R.R. 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