DARKNESS in Classic Quotes

1  Bleeding, he ran away into the darkness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

2  In the red darkness glinted innumerable rubies.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

3  The electric sky-signs effectively shut off the outer darkness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

4  No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

5  The spidery steelwork of gallery above gallery faded away in all directions into the dark.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

6  The house lights went down; fiery letters stood out solid and as though self-supported in the darkness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

7  The forest of Burnham Beeches stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

8  Her foreshortened figure rushed away from him; the diminishing square of the roof seemed to be falling through the darkness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

9  In their blood-coloured and foetal darkness the dancers continued for a while to circulate, to beat and beat out the indefatigable rhythm.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

10  In the cinematographic twilight, Bernard risked a gesture which, in the past, even total darkness would hardly have emboldened him to make.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

11  On the fringe of the little group stood a stranger--a man of middle height, black-haired, with a hooked nose, full red lips, eyes very piercing and dark.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

12  And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

13  He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVII

14  In the open space at the centre of the square were two circular platforms of masonry and trampled clay--the roofs, it was evident, of underground chambers; for in the centre of each platform was an open hatchway, with a ladder emerging from the lower darkness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

15  Then the bearskin made a final appearance and, amid a blare of sexophones, the last stereoscopic kiss faded into darkness, the last electric titillation died on the lips like a dying moth that quivers, quivers, ever more feebly, ever more faintly, and at last is quite, quite still.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

16  From the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter X

17  Those fiery letters, meanwhile, had disappeared; there were ten seconds of complete darkness; then suddenly, dazzling and incomparably more solid-looking than they would have seemed in actual flesh and blood, far more real than reality, there stood the stereoscopic images, locked in one another's arms, of a gigantic negro and a golden-haired young brachycephalic Beta-Plus female.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI