Dark Woods Quotes

#1. Another fairy flew up, carrying a spear and wearing a helmet and not much else. I thought about asking why he had armor on his head and not his balls, but I didn't think that was proper etiquette while being held prisoner by the Dark Woods fairies.

T.J. Klune

#2. Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.

Anthony Esolen

#3. Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

#4. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri

#5. Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

Pascale Petit

#6. The naive lose it in dark woods,
but seek it under the street lamps.

Toba Beta

#7. My new rule for life. Don't go into spooky dark woods on your own."
"You're not on your own.

Sophie Kinsella

#8. Where dark woods hide secrets and mountains are fierce and bold. Deep waters hold reflections of times lost long ago. I will heed every story, take hold of my own dream. Be as strong as the sea is stormy, be as proud as an eagle's scream.

Julie Fowlis

#9. We went into the Dark Woods and I almost had to get gay fairy married again and now I feel really bad and Ryan got bad-touched by trees and Fairy King Dimitri was cryptic and annoying and apparently has a size kink.

T.J. Klune

#10. The full moon cast an eerie glow through thick ancient dark woods. In the shadows around a tree, the serial killer ran his knife lovingly over Chelsea's trussed dead body. She lay, as if posed for a photo, wearing only bloody pink underpants.

H. Raven Rose

#11. But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire ... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

Phil Cousineau

#12. Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

Alice Hoffman

#13. I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.
Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,
that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.

Toba Beta

#14. We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.

Margaret Mazzantini

#15. So, funny story. There are fairies? In the Dark Woods. And I might have pissed off their king."
There was silence. Then, "Of course you did.

T.J. Klune

#16. Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

Jack Gilbert

#17. We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten you?" Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.

George R R Martin

#18. The woods hung dark on the hills; above, the sky violet, specked with minute feathery clouds, white as snowflakes.

Arthur Machen

#19. Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.

Reinaldo Arenas

#20. What can come? my grandson Sam asked, when he was very young, after his mother had warned him not to go into the woods after dark. What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries.

Abigail Thomas

#21. Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#22. We are Bears, We are not afraid of the Dark and Dangerous Woods!!!

From my New Storybook Where's the Soda Tub? Featuring New Toy Bears names Puddles, Patches and Polar Bear Ice.

Migdalia Torres

#23. Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.

Eudora Welty

#24. He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.

Michael Montoure

#25. I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear.

Amy McNamara

#26. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

#27. It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods."
"Yes, there are ...

Katlyn Charlesworth

#28. The boy was sitting quietly on the bunk, still wrapped in the blanket, watching. The man thought he had probably not fully committed himself to any of this. You could wake in the dark wet woods at any time.

Cormac McCarthy

#29. She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as all the princesses were, yet Oliver thought Petunia was far more beautiful.

Jessica Day George

#30. When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.

Cormac McCarthy

#31. Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

Henry Timrod

#32. That little cabin belongs to my dad, and I just happen to have the keys. Wanna see it?"
Was he nuts? Of course I wanted to go into a dark cabin in the woods with him. "Sure.

J.B. Hartnett

#33. Dark beasts, night terrors, and Ayden with manners? These woods were
terrifying indeed.

Rachel Haimowitz

#34. Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt ... people.

Martin Luther

#35. We are Bears, We are Not Suppose too be Afraid of the Dark & Dangerous Woods.

Migdalia Torres

#36. 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

#37. Should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten

George R R Martin

#38. never seen real darkness, not in the city, but how, if you stood peeing off the cabin porch on a moonless night, or took a walk through the woods where the treetops stitched out the stars, you could almost forget you were there, you felt invisible. Country dark, his mother called it.

Tom Franklin

#39. My famous quote comes from my Storybook for Children Titled "Where's the Soda Tub"? Author Migdalia Torres

We are Bears, We are not suppose to be afraid of the Dark and Dangerous Woods

Migdalia Torres

#40. She eased across the creaking floorboards to the nearest window.
The view encompassed the woods, with dark shapes smeared into one entity, like in her sketchbook.
What lay amongst the trees?

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#41. Being that the *historical* Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#42. Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#43. The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.
Love just keeps on looking.
Love is forever tries.

Anna White

#44. They spoke no more of the small news of
the Shire far away, nor of the dark shadows and perils that
encompassed them, but of the fair things they had seen in
the world together, of the Elves, of the stars, of trees, and the
gentle fall of the bright year in the woods.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#45. Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.

Robert Dunbar

#46. As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss and June's. That's what i thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. Piss is Piss.

Sue Monk Kidd

#47. His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

Flannery O'Connor

#48. but it was still dark in the woods

Carolyn Brown

#49. One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#50. Do you want to tell me what you're doing up here in the middle of the woods?" He gazed at her milky white skin, dark hair, and wide eyes. "If you're looking for the seven dwarfs, they live in the next forest over.

Deborah Blake

#51. You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus by candle light".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#52. Far away, I can hear Mouflon, our last sheep, bleating in the dark. I wonder if Annie is still out to protect her, still scouring the woods in barefoot pursuit of those dogs. I feel sorry for Annie, alone with a rabid pack of her own delusions. I feel sorrier for Mouflon. She's alone with Annie.

Karen Russell