27 Metaphors for darkness

And then I discovered that among the women, and among many of the poor people, it had come to be believed that the darkness was a curse upon us for what we had done in respect to the hospital.

And the winter darkness, when the north gales make their long sweep across the ice-pack, and the air is filled with flying white, and no man may venture forth, is the chosen time for the telling of how Keesh, from the poorest igloo in the village, rose to power and place over them all.

Also, the pitch darkness in the car would be a further annoyance to good aim.

There comes a darkness: a great burden, too. ADMETUS.

" The darkness of London and Paris was a joke beside the darkness of Antwerp.

He answered, "The darkness of the north is dulness of mind and ignorance of truths; the fires of the west are the loves of evil; and the delusive lights of the south are the falsifications of truth, which are spiritual whoredoms."

The darkness, which was getting to be very intense, was now the greatest and most immediate source of his apprehensions.

Of colours it is good to behold green, red, yellow, and white, and by all means to have light enough, with windows in the day, wax candles in the night, neat chambers, good fires in winter, merry companions; for though melancholy persons love to be dark and alone, yet darkness is a great increaser of the humour.

For them "darkness" is an evil power, or rather the personification of evil, having his origin in himself in opposition to, and in perpetual struggle with, the goodness of God.

But the darkness of the town was noon-day light in comparison of the gloom which reigned in Mr. Thomasson's mind.

They knew that everlasting darkness was their portion upon this earth.

I thought that if such spiritual darkness and trial as she was in for many years, was a necessary attendant on eminent piety, I could not summon courage to try to live such a life.

The darkness was a physical oppression....

"Darkness" is the enemy of souls, the primary cause of death, the adversary of virtue.

Darkness with them was only too dense a purple.

It was a fog in the streets, on which darkness was already settlingstreets without a lamp or a sound except that from the onflowing trains.

Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound,an ocean without light.

Darkness is the symbol of initiation.

Whether the "glorious darkness" denoted by the name Satan is an actual personage or a maleficent influence, is of secondary moment as far as the aim and moral of this discourse are concerned.

'tis some other Love That hath a more command on his affections, And he that fetcht him, a disguised Agent, Not what he personated; for his fashion Was more familiar with him, and more powerful Than one that ask'd an alms: I must find out One, if not both: kind darkness be my shrowd, And cover loves too curious search in me, For yet, suspicion, I would not name thee.

Robert loved the day and the sun, but darkness was always a friend of those who fled, and now he prayed that it would come thick and dark.

Her room, which had been so warm and bright, lay desolate in the stillness of the night; but she wanted no light, for the darkness was no darkness to her.

I lay in darkness, face down in the mire, And prayed that darkness might become my pall; The rabble rout roared round me like some quire Of filthy animals primordial; My heart seemed like a toad eternally Prisoned in stone, ugly and sad as he; Sweet sunlight seemed a dream, a mythic thing, And life some beldam's dotard gossiping.

Life does not engender death; darkness is not the origin of light; sickness is not the maker of health.

My heart within me faults to roam In thought even far from thee: Thine be the grave whereto I come, And thine my darkness be.

27 Metaphors for  darkness