Top 100 Quotes About The Dark
#1. So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
Lord Byron
#2. I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.
Lana Del Rey
#3. We come into the world out of the dark. We haven't got a clue where we've come from. We've got no idea where we're going. But while we're here in the world, if we're brave enough, we flap our wings and fly.
David Almond
#4. I don't want to even think about what kind of creatures could be lurking out there in the dark in the middle of the sticks. Probably the same ones lurking around during the day, but I've learned that dangerous things like to wait till night to surface, when you can't see the coming.
Carolee Dean
#5. In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#6. The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
Ted Dekker
#7. Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.
Massimo Marino
#8. Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.
Frederick Douglass
#9. Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Ernie Pyle
#10. The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
Libba Bray
#11. Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.
Philip Pullman
#12. Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.
Ismene: Who said that?
Antigone: Hegel.
Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.
Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.
Ismene: I don't think so.
Anne Carson
#13. Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.
Walter De La Mare
#14. Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark)
Kresley Cole
#15. Who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes ... ?
John Geddes
#16. Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow.
Then he met it.
Now he glows in the dark.
Ben Loory
#17. Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.
Lauren Groff
#18. We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.
Robert Crippen
#19. The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
Parke Godwin
#20. I do feel like 'The Dark Knight' is a great film, but that Batman in there? He's almost like Robocop to me. He's almost robotic looking; he's got this surgical approach to everything ... He's almost not human. That's supposed to be his whole point: he's supposed to be the most human of superheroes.
Lee Bermejo
#21. Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.
David Berlinski
#22. We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.
Minor White
#23. God has a celebration meal with us not after we finally get out of the dark valley but in the middle of it, in the presence of our enemies. He wants us to rejoice in him in the midst of our troubles.
Timothy Keller
#24. Species went extinct and new ones evolved from protozoa while he sat in his car in the dark and waited to see how badly he'd fucked this up.
Amy Jo Cousins
#25. We are safer with Him in the dark than without Him in the sunshine.
Lettie B. Cowman
#26. Somethings are better in the dark.
That isn't true we can't see in dark. There is nothing to light the way, so we stumble, and in the dark we can't see who could help us.
Quinn Loftis
#27. Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
George Iles
#28. For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing.
Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon.
T.R. Hummer
#29. Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable ...
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#30. Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.
Iain Pears
#31. The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.
How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking
Mary Stolz
#32. I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And, I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone
and you will not be.
Gloria Estefan
#33. Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?
Edmond Jabes
#34. I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.
Emma Cline
#35. About actors' lives ... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.
Tilda Swinton
#36. Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
Phillips Brooks
#37. Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
Robert A. Heinlein
#38. Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
Brene Brown
#39. I ran away into the dark, laughing so hard I feared I might rupture myself.
Ralph Ellison
#40. Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#41. I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.
Terry Joyce
#42. When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#43. What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned ... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest ... What still pulls on your soul?
Rumi
#44. Then she went to Damon.
He was still lying where he had fallen. The ghosts had passed over him, taking no notice of him. Elena's brightness hovered over him, one shining hand reaching to touch his hair. Then she bent and kissed the dark head on the ground.
L.J.Smith
#45. A scarecrow was a thing of bold-faced tactics, out in the full light of day. A "murmet," the "r" softly rolling against the tongue spoke of murmuring stealth, as though it hunted marauding crows in the dark of twilight.
Kathleen Kent
#46. He is human - they are a lesser species. Over the decades, the dark side has exacted too great a toll on his body. He is a hollow shell of what he once was.
Drew Karpyshyn
#47. I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.
Michelle MacLaren
#49. Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.
Sylvester Stallone
#50. People in brightly lit places can't see into the dark.
Marie Rutkoski
#51. I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. We can't selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Brene Brown
#53. Told you he's a cuddly one." The other Arum leaned his arms on the roof of the car and a brow rose over the dark sunglasses he also wore. "Cuddly as a damn porcupine." Daemon raised a middle finger. This was going well.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#54. When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
Denis Diderot
#55. You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.
Paul Hawken
#56. I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.
Drake Bell
#57. Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
Thomas Carlyle
#59. The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
Abraham Kuyper
#60. Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
Stefan Zweig
#61. For us to move forward, we have to develop the courage to forward what is behind...the hurt/pain and unpleasant memories that haunt us in the dark moments. We must hold on to our faith as we step out in boldness, strongly believing that our very best lies ahead.
Kemi Sogunle
#62. In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. You can Yell about the past or Dwell in the dark future. Both are sure to create hell.Rather let a Smile ring the bell Today.
R.v.m.
#64. I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother ... Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.
Garrison Keillor
#65. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.
Randy Sandke
#66. if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank
Thomas Harris
#67. Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.
S.J. Pow
#68. The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!
Terry Pratchett
#69. Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.
Shelley Ramsey
#70. All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.
Chuck Wendig
#71. You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by.
Lemony Snicket
#72. It wouldn't be The Bastion if some conspiracy wasn't brewing in the dark recesses of the halls of power,
Rhiannon Frater
#73. I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
T.C. Boyle
#74. I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds ... But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.
Richard Aldington
#75. I have felt something in the garden I discovered. I have felt the presence of something other. And now, standing in the dark, with a salt wind blowing up from the invisible sea, from the remembered beloved river ...
Helen Humphreys
#76. The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.
Stephen King
#77. People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.
Amy Gerstler
#79. When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
Will Self
#81. I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
Morris Gleitzman
#82. Is there a better method of departure by night
than this quiet bon voyage with an open book,
the sole companion who has come to see you off,
to wave you into the dark waters beyond language?
Billy Collins
#83. It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.
Alan Thicke
#84. Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Charles De Lint
#85. The stars, as if knowing that no one was looking at them, began to disport themselves in the dark sky: now flaring up, now vanishing, now trembling, they were busy whispering something gladsome and mysterious to one another.
Leo Tolstoy
#86. You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#87. I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.
Corey Taylor
#88. He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.
Denis Johnson
#89. You may think you're not blind, but can you see in the dark?
Luis Marques
#90. Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
#91. At night I count
not the stars
but the dark.
Kevin Young
#92. To me ... she was spring. It was as if while imprisoned inside the dark cage of the inner family ... I had completely frozen into snow ... and then there she was
fresh, clear spring. It was almost inevitable that..I would fall in love with her. -Hatori
Natsuki Takaya
#93. Your heart broke again and again, and you tried to fix the pieces with the salves of the world. But they can only dull the pain; they cannot heal. You have been chained. You've hidden your heart in the dark places. But I came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free.
James L. Rubart
#94. There
will always
a glimmer
in those
who have been
through the dark.
Atticus Poetry
#95. Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.
Leonard Susskind
#96. You can't start a fire
Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Bruce Springsteen
#97. It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Dave Eggers
#99. Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark.
"A virgin," sputtered another.
"I didn't know they still made them."
"He just did.
Larry Kramer
#100. Just be the same person you are in the dark that you are in the light,
Jabari Parker
