It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

If you don’t shine you are darkness.

from “Tomorrow

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

...the clearer the light is, the more it blinds and darkens the pupil of the owl; and the more we look at the sun, the greater is the darkness it causes in our vision ... in the same way, when the divine light of contemplation assails the soul that is not wholly enlightened, it causes spiritual darkness within it.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.