Midnight Sun Quotes

“To help us not to remember what we're afraid of, what the human race has invented whole religions to conceal. All religions are like stories people told by the fire when there was nothing but the fire and stories to keep off the cold and the dark, because people couldn't bear to know what was out there beyond the light.”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun

“Ever since then we've believed we've progressed beyond our ancestors because they thought the darkness hid something so alien that they peopled it with gods and monsters and demons, but they were right to think so, don't you see? What lived all by itself in the dark was so unlike us and the rest of the universe, not consciously, at any rate. I believe we're its dreams, us and everything around us, and you know how unlike reality dreams are. But sooner or later it had to waken, and then—”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun

“It's a symbol. And symbols are ways of disguising what people can't bear to see clearly.”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun

“However frightening the truth may seem we have to face it, becauase being afraid of it won't make it go away. Being afraid only shrinks our minds and makes people invent myths small enough for them to cope with.”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun

“The measurements of space and time, the photographs of far stars and of points of light which proved to be composed of thousands of stars, filled him with an awe which felt like the edge of a delicious panic.”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun

“All day Ben had felt surrounded by signs too secret to interpret: the dance of decaying leaves in the air, the long shadows where the autumn chill lurked like winter biding its time, a sun which looked swollen with blood as the mist dragged it down beyond the unconvincing cut-out shapes the houses had become.”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun