Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

All colours will agree in the dark.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.3,'Of Unity in Religion'.

Shall not the day of the L be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDAmos 5:20.

The first day of the weekcometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 20:1.

It was a dark and stormy night.

-Lytton
  Opening words of Paul Clifford.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

-Chandler, Raymond
Quoted in the Smithsonian, May1994.

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, pervert and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden lightthat showsneworderand beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

-Cornforth, SirJohnWarcup
  Nobel prize speech.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

-Daniel, Samuel
  Delia, sonnet 54.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
Quoted in  John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

Novelists, whatever else they may be besides, are also children talking to childrenöin the dark.

-DeVoto, Bernard
  The World of Fiction.

O dark dark dark. Theyall go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.3.

And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier, Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fire In the dark time of the year. Between melting and freezing The soul's sap quivers.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

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

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  'Handle With Care', in Esquire, Mar.

The Dark Is Light Enough.

-Fry, C(harles) B(urgess)
   Title of play.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and darköa shining space With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'Sick Love'.

As you walk through the storm, Hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark, At the end of the storm, Is a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of the lark, Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on, With hope in your hearts, And you'll never walk alone, You'll never walk alone.

-Hammerstein, Oscar, II
  Carousel,'You'll NeverWalk Alone' (music by Richard Rodgers). The song was subsequently released in a pop version by Gerry and the Pacemakers in1963 and adopted as a club song by Liverpool football club.

Which I wish to remarkö And my language is plainö That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.

-Harte, (Francis) Bret
  'Plain Language from Truthful James', stanza1. The poem became popularly known as'That Heathen Chinee'.

   Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawingöa drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

-Hirschfeld, Al
  In the NewYork Times, 21  Jun. 85th birthday interview.

We work in the darköwe do what we canöwe give what we have.Our doubt is in our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is madness.

-James, Henry
  Dencombe speaking of the artist.'The MiddleYears', in Scribner's Magazine, May.

Everyone has talent.What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  'The  Artist  as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.