“It was a dark and stormy night.”

“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”

“Enchantress of the stormy seas,
Priestess of Night's high mysteries.”

“Our life is but a dark and stormy night,
To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light,
While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all
By that which makes him but mistake and fall.”

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”

“"Now who be ye would cross Lochgyle,
This dark and stormy water?"
"O I'm the chief of Ulva's isle,
And this, Lord Ullin's daughter.”

“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.”

“Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!”

“For every dark night, there's a brighter day. ”