C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Darkness

Darkness which may be felt.

Bible.

Darkness visible.

Milton.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Schiller.

At one stride comes the dark.

Coleridge.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
Thou art our great original!

Yalden.

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world.

Joaquin Miller.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Shakespeare.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Victor Hugo.

Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll
Cimmerian darkness o’er the parting soul.

Campbell.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Victor Hugo.