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Out of the blackness of the ward, a half-open file drawer of pain each bed a folder, come cries, struck cries, as from cold metal. — Thomas Pynchon

The horizon was beginning to charcoal. What was left of the blackness above was nothing now but a scribble, and disappearing fast. — Markus Zusak

Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars. — Derek Landy

The blackness that smothers me is total, and in the moment before everything falls away, I know what it feels like to be dead. — Michelle Zink

We're not troubled at all, but I think ... Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls. — Nina Persson

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. — Bob Dylan

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. — Sylvia Plath

Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. — Herman Melville

The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness. — Dean Koontz

I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts — Munia Khan

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent. — Michael Eric Dyson

Dawn tore at the seam of night, pulling the blackness back a little farther with each passing minute. — Mary Alice Monroe

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap. — Alice Walker

If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 — Mervyn Peake

You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot. — Douglas Adams

SAY IT IS WELL EVEN WHEN U ARE INSIDE D WELL.WE CAN STILL SEE GOD THRU D BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS.TRUST GOD. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Z, can you see?" "Oh sure, looks like black with darker spots of black on a burning black background of blackness. — Michael-Scott Earle

Stars shine brighter in the blackness of darkness.Cheer up no matter your pains — Ikechukwu Joseph

Madness is blackness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing. — Tana French

I am sliding, down,down. Toward blackness, I must not sleep. I must not sleep.I.Must.Not.Sleep. — S.J. Watson

At night, when all melted into a uniform blackness, Hrathen could almost see Elantris's grandeur. — Brandon Sanderson

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare. — Elizabeth Bishop

I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it. — Toni Morrison

Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself ... — Ray Bradbury

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Lights flicker, flash, dim. I fall into the blackness. — Cynthia Sax

The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon. — Dominic Smith

The snow whispered down in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness. — Cormac McCarthy

His raspy voice cut through the blackness, darker than the blackness. 'Mine. — Laura Oliva

Far better that false hope should lull you,
Than that sheer blackness yawn at you — Ivan Klima

They went on in the perfect blackness, sightless as the blind. — Cormac McCarthy

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. — Owen Feltham

Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. — Matthew Butterick

Tires roared. The car lurched forward ... crunching ... a bright light ... yellow eyes ... then blackness. — Jessica Sorensen

There's a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me. — E.K. Johnston

Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society - of "pleasure girded about with pain." After that the blackness of unutterable night. — Thomas Hardy

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause. — Kiese Laymon

The blackness of darkness, forever. — Beth Gibbons

The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance. — Thomas Marshburn

There's a little blackness inside all of us. — Cassia Leo

Light faded into blackness, I was falling and then everything shattered. — J.D. Clair

I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds. — Tahereh Mafi

I found it easier to stare out into the infinite blackness, away from the fire burning itself out in his eyes. — Heather Heffner

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear. — Bruce Springsteen

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own? — Stacey Lee

He wasn't dead. Unless the afterlife was just a crappy room of blackness. — James Dashner

The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition. — Issa Rae

window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get any — Lemony Snicket

I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the place. — Mari Evans

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. — Yann Martel

to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery. — Octavia E. Butler

There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive. — Bryan Hall

The raven chides blackness. — William Shakespeare

The moonless sky was a rich wild blackness of stars. — Louise Erdrich

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars ... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars! — Louis Untermeyer

It's bad enough ... when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end. — Tsitsi Dangarembga

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness. — Hunter S. Thompson

The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us.. — Nathanial Hawthorne

The blackness tried to swallow us whole, kill us, ruin us, capture our soul — Pepper Winters

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems ... — John Geddes

Black people are either threats or entertainment. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm - and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better. — John Hawkes

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense. — H.L. Mencken

He spoke into a blackness without depth or dimension. — Cormac McCarthy

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense. — Charles Duke

But it was difficult to remain faithful when all about you was blackness and exertion. — David Kirk

Nothing is as frightening as the thought that only blackness will greet you when you leave this life. — David Dalglish

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. — Neil Gaiman

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope - only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words. — Charles Lee

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley

Lights in the blackness. Waiting for the score. Putting on a face. Flirt a little more. That — Kasie West

The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests. — Neil Gaiman

It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness. — Maya Angelou

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney

Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud! — Mr. T

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness. — Orhan Pamuk

We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return. — S.K. Tremayne

The corridor didn't seem long enough to contain so much blackness.

'Passing Through Peacehaven — Ramsey Campbell

The cold air chilled Firepaw's bones as blackness wrapped itself around him. — Erin Hunter

Pleasuring her might've kept the blackness at bay , but if I took her, if I selfishly fucked her to sate myself, was there a chance I could kill her? — Keri Lake

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. — Frank Herbert

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness. — John Saul

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence. — Toyin Odutola

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark — Haruki Murakami

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features. — Emily Bronte

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? — Jamie Foxx

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right. — George Carlin

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I love my blackness. And yours. — Deray McKesson

Watching the very last glimmers of light sink into blackness behind the horizon. — Douglas Adams

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss. — Madonna Ciccone

Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness. — Lili Wilkinson

The tunneling entrance curves before it opens into this space and there is absolute, waiting, coiled, and sentient blackness. — Sofia Samatar

Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world. — R. Scott Bakker