Absence of Light Quotes

Darkness is only light's absence.

There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me

Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

If there was a blacker color than black, I would wear it.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.