Dark Noir Quotes

#1. Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#2. The ways of the Lord," I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant."
"Adler?"
"Theodor Reik, I think.

Robert B. Parker

#3. He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.

David Goodis

#4. The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.

Bruce Crown

#5. A picture of my existence ... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow ... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

Franz Kafka

#6. If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

Shams Tabrizi

#7. You rile this gal and she'll go wildcat on your ass.
Patti (Pat) Canella- Dockland murders/Ghosts of your past.

Alan Place

#8. 'I love to cook. Very healthy eating ... ' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'

Shania Twain

#9. Sometimes in life you meet a femme fatale and you can refuse them nothing they treat you like dirt but even the dirt they dish out has a taste you can resist?
From the novel 'Adventures of a Dark Duke: The Pin

Russell C. Brennan

#10. There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

James May

#12. The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.

James Surowiecki

#13. The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

Jim Thompson

#14. A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Friedrich Schiller

#15. Why are you fighting like this? You're acting like Reece and Ridley.

Kami Garcia

#16. When I say jump, fucking leap twenty feet. Got it?

Cecilia Robert

#17. I can't believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing ...

Richard Louv

#19. How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?

William Lindsay Gresham

#21. It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.

Justin Cronin

#22. How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. But what the hell, I thought as I lay there in the dark. It could be souls rot away with the body, too. What did anything matter in the long run anyway, except memories? And they only lived on in corpses that couldn't talk.

Will Viharo

#24. The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

Emma Hooper