Top 100 Dark Things Quotes
#1. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.
Brandi L. Bates
#2. No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.
Norman Vincent Peale
#3. They say when you look in dark places you find dark things.
And trust me; I have been in some very dark places.
Sean Catt
#4. 'The Walking Dead' was my favorite show before I even auditioned for it. That's every actor's dream, to be on a show that they're a fan of. It's just dark, and as a comedian, I'm drawn to dark things.
Josh McDermitt
#5. You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
Robert Smith
#6. If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.
Neil Gaiman
#7. People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.
Bruce McCulloch
#8. Fire," she whispered. "Wind. I see dark things and a dark war. I see my death coming for me, out of the spirit world. And I see you at the middle of it all. You're the beginning, the end of it. You're the one who can make the path go different ways."
"That's your vision? Iowa has less corn.
Jim Butcher
#9. Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
Terry Brooks
#10. I want you to know the level of my devotion to you," he states. "I don't ever want you to question it. The things I have and will continue to do to protect you. To avenge you. They are dark things. But that darkness is my burden to carry, and it always will be.
A. Zavarelli
#11. The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken?
Emily Thorne
#12. I like to think we're all born to do good, but dark things sometimes get in the way.
Anonymous
#13. I had to prove that what he believed wasn't true. Prove that he was the total of everything he had done and not the dark things he was ashamed of, and I would do so because I loved him and accepted him for who he was, for all his faults. That was what love meant. Love fostered courage.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#14. I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
C. K. Williams
#15. I love you as one loves certain dark things - Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
Cassandra Clare
#16. This is another dream, isn't it?"
"Perceive it as you like. I've been trying to tell you things, but you're allowing the dark things-him-to invade your thoughts and feelings.
Sandy DeLuca
#17. You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#18. Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.
Ken Bruen
#19. I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it?
Stephanie Perkins
#20. Light doesn't always keep the dark things away, Nyx said.
Kameron Hurley
#21. It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.
Cameron Dokey
#22. If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.
Lilith Saintcrow
#23. You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.
David Wong
#24. She enjoyed dark things, it was how she felt. People had pushed her there. She now enjoyed the quiet. She craves the night, the darkness where she is safe.
Tina J. Richardson
#25. Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.
Robin Wasserman
#26. The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.
Juliet Marillier
#27. No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
Josh Radnor
#28. Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
Tim Tharp
#29. Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks,
in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.
Sukanya Venkatraghavan
#30. Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.
James Freeman Clarke
#31. Never give up hope, no matter how dark things may seem.
A.T.
#32. So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.
Leigh Bardugo
#33. I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.
Camilla Belle
#34. I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Sammy Hagar
#35. The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.
Roald Dahl
#36. Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
David Lynch
#37. She smelled of deep, dark things and untold secrets and all of what she was keeping from me.
Nova Ren Suma
#38. Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
Glenda Millard
#39. I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Sun Ra
#40. The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
James Mercer
#41. What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.
Danny DeVito
#42. All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Paul Klee
#43. You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
John Darnielle
#44. Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities
always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
#46. I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Stephanie Perkins
#47. Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It chuckled. "Why do you think I'm chatting with you?
Jonathan Stroud
#48. We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.
Alice Lowe
#49. We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.
Suzanne Palmieri
#50. There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!
Seth Godin
#52. Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
Michael Moore
#53. You can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.
Fred Richmond
#54. Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
Melissa Jo Peltier
#55. In the sunny world, with its small things moving too fast, I shy away from light and in the attic cuss the dark.
Andre Alexis
#56. Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went. To Mr. Segundus the patterns looked a little like magical writing. 'But then,' he thought, 'So many things do.
Susanna Clarke
#57. I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Guillermo Del Toro
#58. In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
Trent Reznor
#59. If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
Steven Millhauser
#60. I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.
Johnny Depp
#61. I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.
Tony Vincent
#62. I can awaken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life. You're strong enough to live in the dark, to glory in it. You can become a queen of the shadows. Why not take that power, Elena? Let me help you take it.
L.J.Smith
#63. Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limbs
for the soil made with victims
of atrocity's vileness
to redeem the fragileness
Munia Khan
#64. It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#65. Time and ka and trains. I'm thinking about them and many other things.
(Lady of Shadows: Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three)
Stephen King
#66. Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear; it travels everywhere; it learns some things from everything and this is the secret of water's wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#68. Beat, happy stars, timing with things below,
Beat with my heart more blest than heart can tell,
Blest, but for some dark undercurrent woe
That seems to draw - but it shall not be so:
Let all be well, be well.
Alfred Tennyson
#69. [ ... ] knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep [ ... ], knowing he was unfair [ ... ], knowing all these things but unable to stop the dark torrent of his thoughts.
Steven Erikson
#70. Nobody panics when things go "according to plan". Even if the plan is horrifying!
Heath Ledger
#71. Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.
Ally Condie
#72. I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.
Emily Rios
#73. I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'
Petra Haden
#74. To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
Patricia Briggs
#75. So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places. Besides, I'm trying to tell you the truth of a woman like me.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#76. I think of these qualities as metaphorical, you know? So black magic is whatever leads people to the dark side - their own greed or insecurity that makes them do destructive things.
Christina Baker Kline
#77. Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman.
Charles Soule
#78. When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.
Dean Koontz
#79. I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do.
Brian Andreas
#80. He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark. But he will take with him the canisters full of blasted images and have the pleasure of living them again. They are not nothing, the memories.
Lauren Groff
#81. In life, you will find two things. The quiet beauty of Darkness, and the bright songs of Light. The choice is yours to decide which will be you, and which will be your shadow.
Taylor Chackowsky
#82. Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#83. To truly love someone you have to see their flaws. See the dark side. The things you don't like.
Lee Monroe
#84. While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.
Diana Gabaldon
#85. Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard
#86. The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.
Kirsty Logan
#87. The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.
David Sedaris
#88. Sometimes people think they want to know things, but then they hear the answer and realize they'd prefer to be in the dark.
Hannah Harrington
#89. But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.
Brian Falkner
#90. Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...
Joseph Delaney
#91. I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.
Jon Foreman
#92. Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.
Rebecca Stead
#93. Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
Ian Brodie
#94. Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
Damian Conway
#95. In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.
Frederick Lenz
#96. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.
Janice Galloway
#97. (As are all living things. All are caught in the river of power that is the Force, trapped by its currents. Only those who wield the dark side of the Force are capable of changing those currents; they are riverbreakers. They do not surrender to fate. They are its foes.) The
Chuck Wendig
#98. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.
Thucydides
#99. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.
Edward Carey
#100. Just don't keep me in the dark about things.
Otherwise, why am I with you?
Ai Yazawa
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