| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Darkness |
| | | Darkness which may be felt. Bible. | 1 |
| Darkness visible. Milton. | 2 |
| Weep, for the light is dead. Schiller. | 3 |
| At one stride comes the dark. Coleridge. | 4 |
| | Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, |
| Thou art our great original! |
Yalden. | 5 |
| | 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. | 6 |
| There is no darkness but ignorance. Shakespeare. | 7 |
| The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. Victor Hugo. | 8 |
| | Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll |
| Cimmerian darkness oer the parting soul. |
Campbell. | 9 |
| There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness. Victor Hugo. | 10 | | |
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