It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

It is always darkest before the dawn.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

Darkness there, and nothing more.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.”

I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

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

And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark

Pitch black again. Like someone extinguished an angel.

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.