
Top 100 Quotes About Dark Places
#1. Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault
#2. Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
George R R Martin
#3. The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.
Robin Bertram
#4. When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.
Shannon L. Alder
#5. I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Guillermo Del Toro
#6. The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.
Jamie Foxx
#7. Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
Victor Hugo
#8. And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
Joseph Conrad
#10. The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.
August Tholuck
#11. 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
#12. I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.
Daniel Keyes
#13. God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)
Keith Ablow
#15. 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
#16. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.
Jeremy McCarter
#17. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Veronica Roth
#19. Even if I couldn't get into the dark places in her head, I would at least be there waiting on the outside.
Nina LaCour
#20. You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul
Noelle Adams
#21. I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.
Donald Glover
#22. The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
George R R Martin
#23. Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.
Gene Logsdon
#24. Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
Barbra Streisand
#26. They don't really know him, not the dark and scary parts, but then again they don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness. Only he embraces the darkness inside of me and turns it into love and light.
Tara Brown
#27. My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind can travel forever and ever.
T.A. Barron
#28. At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
Catherine Hicks
#29. I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
Tim Ferriss
#30. When you have nothing left to lose, it's easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I'm there.
Lori Lesko
#31. I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
Tom Green
#32. I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.
Dana Spiotta
#33. If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.
Tony Vincent
#34. Sometimes I accidentally walk into the places where I and you had spoken before, existed before, which still have the smell of
your memories, all of a sudden it starts feeling like I have entered a dark room without a door anywhere. Where I can always hear that song I used to love once before.
Akshay Vasu
#35. Death chased you Natalie. You have lived your life surrounded by it. You seek it. You creep around in dark places searching for it but you are afraid of it aren't you?
Nicole T. Smith
#37. People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
Tom Stoppard
#38. I wouldn't go for a swim without consulting you first. But, given your past history working for Hollowcrest and skulking around dark places, I wonder if you have any insight into these tunnels."
"Skulking?"
"Yes, is that not what assassins call it?"
"We call it working.
Lindsay Buroker
#39. Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
S.J. Rozan
#40. She'd been faithful to God through everything He'd laid at her feet, but where was He now?"
(Arise From Dark Places)
Connie Almony
#41. When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.
Joel Osteen
#42. Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
Mary Lambert
#43. There were only a few dark places in her safe, secure world
Eliza Maxwell
#44. To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.
Ari Berk
#45. There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.
Paul Theroux
#46. Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Make up a story ... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
Toni Morrison
#49. In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.
Pico Iyer
#50. I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. Her mind can't go to the dark places mine does.
Jenny Han
#53. I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
David Shrigley
#54. Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.
William McIlvanney
#55. Blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it's time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don't have enough pioneers like this, and I wonder if it's because they were afraid to live and afraid to learn?
Nikki Rowe
#56. Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
Lisa Kristine
#57. All of them
Hattie and Willie and Evelyn and even ruined, crazy Walter
were little lights; sparks flying upward in dark places, trying to stay alight though they were compelled toward ash. They were nearly extinguished one moment, then orange and luminous the next.
Ayana Mathis
#58. I can suffer alone, or I can hold on to God in my pain. I can be meek and trust Him to make something good out of it. Only Jesus can heal the wounds, only Jesus can fill up those dark places with light, with understanding. Only He can quench our thirst for hope.
Susan May Warren
#59. True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
Steven Aitchison
#60. 'Last Man Standing' has been an amazing treat because it is the best day job you could have because we laugh every day. It lightened me up a bit because I tend to go to some dark places.
Amanda Fuller
#61. We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.
Frederick Lenz
#62. I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
Ezra Miller
#63. After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.
Sanhita Baruah
#64. The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.
Albert Einstein
#65. We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.
Eilis Flynn
#66. Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.
Gertrude Stein
#67. Something in her demanded victimization and terror, so she corrupted my dreams, led me into dark places I had no wish to explore. It was no longer clear to me which of us was the victim. Perhaps we were victims of one another.
Anna Kavan
#68. In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.
China Mieville
#69. Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
Countee Cullen
#70. elsewhere other powers still dwell. There is power, too, of another kind in the Shire. But all such places will soon become islands under siege, if things go on as they are going. The Dark Lord is putting forth all his strength.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#71. He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.
Marie Rutkoski
#72. Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.
Gerald Seymour
#73. Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them? It must be that they believe in their night vision. They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark. But black wells only yield black water.
Helen Oyeyemi
#74. Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart
the darkness that is always with us.
Larry Heinemann
#76. We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.
Lawrence Block
#77. Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark Twain
#78. I blame my generation for having neglected to teach our children that in life there are no safe places, that safety is an illusion. "Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961.
Azar Nafisi
#79. The Cottage Diner's homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.
Katherine McIntyre
#80. Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows.
Carl Sagan
#81. We can't change anything in the past. All we can do now is take comfort in each other, and the truth that we never need to go back to our dark places.
Emily Faith
#82. If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you.
Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.
Rona V Flynn
#83. This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.
Leslie Pietrzyk
#84. I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
Joe Dempsie
#85. Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
Juliet Marillier
#86. Hello carnivore,' said the mouse priest. He turned and bowed to Uncle Mike and Dominic. 'Hail to the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already, and to the God of Hard Choices in Dark Places.' Ryan blinked. 'What?' 'It's a mouse thing, just roll with it, you'll be happier that way,' I advised.
Seanan McGuire
#87. Don't be afraid of your dark places," Mom told her. "If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
Jeannette Walls
#88. It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
Joan Didion
#89. I'd rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can't see. And that's not ignorance. That's just hope.
Caroline George
#90. 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
#91. Let's get the heck out of here then. These dark empty places give me the creeps. I feel like zombies are going to spring out at any time," I said, picking up my dropped items.
"If there are zombies then we have much bigger problems," he joked.
-Cora and Noah
Andrea Heltsley
#92. The Universe does not judge; it conspires in favor of what we want. That is why the Warrior has the courage to look into the dark places of his soul in order to ensure that he is not asking for the wrong things. And he is always very careful about what he thinks.
Paulo Coelho
#93. You are a member of my court. And as such, you answer to me. You are wise, and brave, and a joy - but we are headed into dark, horrible places where even I fear to tread.
Sarah J. Maas
#94. People themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.
Lauren Oliver
#95. I've prowled the dirtiest back alleys of sadness, okay? And I know what it's like to fight for your life on those mean streets. So if you need someone to vent to or someone to be quiet with or someone to talk your ear off, I can be that person. I'm not scared of the dark places.
Emery Lord
#96. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark Twain
#97. Matthais: *Sighs* England. I'd take my Valentine to England on a tour of all the places from Jane Austen's books. Derbyshire, Mr. Darcy's house. Places like that.
Ayden: You're really milking that whole dark, brooding thing.
A&E Kirk
#98. There are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments.
Lia Riley
#99. We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One.
the Ranger oath
J. Michael Straczynski
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