Darkness Descends Quotes

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.

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

His descent was like nightfall.

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

. . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

The night destroys the sun