DARKNESS in Classic Quotes

1  The object gave a dull clink and slid off in darkness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

2  He felt the river pull him further on its way, into darkness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

3  He held his pants out into an abyss and let them fall into darkness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  He heard a number of people crying out in the darkness and shouting.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

5  He saw many hands held to its warmth, hands without arms, hidden in darkness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  He fell back under the breaking curve of darkness and sound and smell, his ears roaring.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  Beatty's pink, phosphorescent cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

9  Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odors on a wind that iced his body.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

11  The other firemen waited behind him, in the darkness, their faces illumined faintly by the smoldering foundation.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

12  The subway fled past him, cream-tile, jet-black, cream-tile, jet-black, numerals and darkness, more darkness and the total adding itself.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

13  Further on, as Montag moved in darkness, he could see the helicopters falling falling like the first flakes of snow in the long winter to come.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

14  He came out of the washroom and shut the door carefully and walked into the darkness and at last stood again on the edge of the empty boulevard.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

15  He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin, splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

16  Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

17  Above all, their laughter was relaxed and hearty and not forced in any way, coming from the house that was so brightly lit this late at night while all the other houses were kept to themselves in darkness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander