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. I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Guillermo Del Toro
#5. 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
#6. Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
Victor Hugo
#7. And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
Joseph Conrad
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. 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
#18. You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul
Noelle Adams
#19. 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
#20. Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
Barbra Streisand
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.
Dana Spiotta
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. There were only a few dark places in her safe, secure world
Eliza Maxwell
#32. 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
#33. Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. 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
#35. Her mind can't go to the dark places mine does.
Jenny Han
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
Steven Aitchison
#40. '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
#41. The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.
Albert Einstein
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you.
Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.
Rona V Flynn
#50. Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
Juliet Marillier
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark Twain
#56. 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
#58. Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.
Robin Wasserman
#59. Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
Colin Firth
#60. Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.
Deepak Chopra
#61. It's about what you've got to put yourself through to make anything worthwhile. It's about going to the dark places and using what you find there.
Kevin Barry
#62. Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.
Jasper Fforde
#63. In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books
Susan Schroder
#64. From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.
Jon Foreman
#65. You never heard me tell you that I want everything, not just the perfect pieces, not just the sparkling, charming snapshots of you. You never let me tell you that I want every piece of you, even the broken ones, even the dark places where scary things hide.
Amy Reed
#66. Your sight takes you where there is light ... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but add your visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. Maggie wasn't without her concerns, though. "What if he's crazy?"
"Yeah, that's a definite possibility," he agreed.
"What if he's not your type?"
"Then we'll only hook up in dark places.
Con Riley
#68. My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
Jessie Pavelka
#69. The other dark places,' Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.
Mary G. Thompson
#71. I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.
Nancy Farmer
#72. Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
C.S. Lewis
#73. light can change the atmosphere in dark places
Jan Jansen
#74. He'd walked into her life, and everything had changed. He'd found her; she'd found him - and all those dark places inside both of them had gotten a little smaller, a little brighter.
J.D. Robb
#75. Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
Clive Barker
#76. If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.
Gerard Way
#77. So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
John Hanning Speke
#78. Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.
Amit Ray
#79. Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
#80. People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.
Chris Carter
#81. The dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Corban Addison
#82. Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.
Michael R. French
#83. The dark places will not be instinctively frightening, true, but isn't it better that children fear boogeymen than pedophiles? Isn't it better that libraries are filled to the brim with stories and not only words?
Thomm Quackenbush
#84. Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times ... It goes to pretty dark places.
James Nesbitt
#85. A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Rebecca West
#86. It was as if a rocket had exploded inside him, flooding all the dark places in his mind with light when he had caught up in that dynamic moment with the lead his instinct for adventure had given him.
Leslie Charteris
#87. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#88. But there were things he had to do. Dark places he needed to visit. Battles that
Anonymous
#89. Entering dark places and raising human beings to a new kind of life was Jesus' primary activity.
Jeff Cook
#90. I've always loved the hopeful nature of the romance genre. We can go to terrible places, dark places with our hero and heroine, explore wounds painful and old, because we know that there is hope even in the darkness.
(Interview with Read-A-Romance Month, 2013)
Nalini Singh
#91. Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it's no big deal; it's only because you are my love.
Stephen King
#92. There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen
#94. It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side.
Amy Ryan
#95. Keep moving. Because the human mind is tricky. And we ought not linger in its dark places.
Caroline Kraus
#96. Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith.
Karen Kingsbury
#97. I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.
Joan Osborne
#98. Let us go then, you and I, like Alice down the rabbit hole, to a time when there still were dark places in the world, and there were men who dared to delve into them.
An old man, I am a boy again.
And dead, the monstrumologist lives.
Rick Yancey
#99. Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.
Deborah Ellis
#100. A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.
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