“That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.”

Statement among his final dying words. [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

Source: Johnny Got His Gun

Poem God Made Night, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)

To his brother Louis at the Siege of Harlem (1573), as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 68

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)

The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010

and all was light.
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.

En una noche oscura,
con ansias, en amores inflamada,
¡oh dichosa ventura!,
salí sin ser notada,
estando ya mi casa sosegada;
One dark night, fired with love's urgent longings — ah, the sheer grace! —
I went out unseen, my house being now all stilled.
In darkness, and secure, by the secret ladder, disguised, — ah, the sheer grace! — in darkness and concealment, my house being now all stilled.
Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead
Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt (1994)
Dark Night of the Soul