Darkness
Darkness, as polar to brightness, is understood to be an absence of visible light. It is also the appearance of black in a color space.
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Famous quotes containing the word darkness:
“[T]hat moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
“I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)