“I am a demon hunter. Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”

Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer

“Am I the cat that takes the bird?
To her the hunted, not the hunter.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”

Jorge Luis Borges book The Immortal

“We all come up a little short and we go down hard.
These days I spend my time skipping through the dark.
Through the empires of dust, I chant your name.
I am the hunter of invisible game.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

“I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“I said
"Lily, Oh Lily I'm so afraid
I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness"
And she said
"Child, take what I say
With a pinch of salt
And protect yourself with fire"”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves