Darkness Of The Soul Quotes:

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

topic: Mad, Heaven, Soul, Darkness Of The Soul, Heart Of Darkness

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

- J. Michael Straczynski

source: "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("Z'ha'dum", 1996), www.imdb.com. (1994–1998).

topic: Dream, War, Fighting, Never Surrender, Darkness Of The Soul

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

- N.K. Jemisin

topic: Loneliness, Soul, Darkness, Darkness Of The Soul

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

- Dave Pelzer

source: Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.166, Health Communications, Inc.

topic: Childhood, Soul, Darkness, Parental, Darkness Of The Soul

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

- Helen M. Luke

topic: Laughter, Reality, Men, Darkness Of The Soul

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

topic: Dragons, People, Evil, Darkness Of The Soul, Humdrum

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

- Ray Manzarek

topic: Darkness, Soul, Half, Darkness Of The Soul