Some Dark Quotes

#1. There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Max Beerbohm

#2. When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.

Thomas Ligotti

#3. Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic; highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.

Adhish Mazumder

#4. 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

#5. I love 'Forrest Gump;' I like sweet, cheery, happy movies. But it has some dark moments too.

Andie MacDowell

#6. I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

Dave Sitek

#7. I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

Luis Miguel

#8. When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

Frans De Waal

#9. You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else.

Ray Bradbury

#10. A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.

Isaiah

#12. The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

Martha Gellhorn

#13. I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.

H.G.Wells

#15. It's very interesting that most of the roles I've gotten are grim, when I'm actually a very well-adjusted man and had a happy upbringing. I guess there are some dark shadows somewhere in there, but I'm a big kid.

Tony Todd

#16. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

Richard Russo

#17. I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.

Kate Christensen

#18. The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. She wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.

Anne Ursu

#21. For some dark reason you heretics come in droves to this House of God. Its light attracts you, but you are incapable of recognizing that.

Javier Sierra

#22. Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

Phoebe Tonkin

#23. '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

#24. Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Mitch Albom

#25. So why had he come? He'd said he'd had no choice, but for centuries men had chopped off their own limbs, faked insanity, gone into hiding or to prison rather than to war. Was there some dark flaw in his psyche? Did he have some perverse need to destroy? To kill?

Dominique Wilson

#26. During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

David Lynch

#27. All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Joni Mitchell

#28. Behind and byond her looks,her manner, there had been some dark malaise. But nobody ever saw it, back then, he thought. All you saw was her face.

Penelope Lively

#29. I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

Tanith Lee

#30. It's a very appropriate show to be doing around Halloween because it's very dark and mysterious. There are some great chorus scenes and some dark stuff and funny stuff as well. It's a really perfect balanced show in many regards.

James Marvel

#31. before being born, each soul is kissed by God and then goes through life always, in some dark way, remembering that kiss and measuring everything it experiences in relation to that original sweetness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#32. Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

Alan Moore

#33. I'm the bad guy on the rest of Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'The Client List,' I'm the bad guy in Renny Harlin's 'Hercules 3D,' and I'm a movie star - finally - on Showtime's new series 'Ray Donovan.' But most importantly, I'm about to be a daddy, so I'm expecting some 'Dark Circles' for real.

Johnathon Schaech

#34. Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

Ken Bruen

#35. Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can't be solved.

Gregory David Roberts

#36. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#37. There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.

Anya Seton

#38. A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.

Joe Abercrombie

#39. Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.

Raymond E. Feist

#40. The route to our highest hopes tends to run right through some dark, booby-trapped places. A girl needs a map and a light to steer her; she might need a flamethrower or a cannon as well. She might need a pirate lover.

Sharon Pywell

#41. 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

#42. You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

Chuck Pagano

#43. How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#44. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

Frederick Buechner

#45. Only the very top of the arched ceiling remained in shadow, as though some dark creature lurked there, devouring all light that strayed too close.

Miyuki Miyabe

#46. It's hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He's smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

Holly Black

#47. I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

Michelle Shocked

#48. Every author bleeds
a different color of ink,
some light, some dark,
but always
with an element
of truth...

Suzanne Steele

#49. sight. So I was still attracted to Jean-Claude. I might even, in some dark corner, love him a little. It didn't matter. Loving the monsters always ends badly for the human. It's a rule. That

Laurell K. Hamilton

#50. It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

Tracy Pollan

#51. Hey, baby. You got a light? I've got some dark.

Tarin Towers

#52. Not that I'm crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn't the end. Even if crazed zombies grabbed me in some dark hall one night, even if they tore me apart, at least that wouldn't be the absolute end. There would be some comfort in that.

Chuck Palahniuk

#53. The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.

Karen Russell

#55. [On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.

Susan Mitchell

#56. Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one's mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

Algis Valiunas

#57. I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness out of me. But, sometimes I get a darker beat, with some dark piano or something ... and then I'll do darker tracks.

SonReal

#58. I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.

Jim Carrey

#59. What I love is when I'm in the theater with audiences and I hear them laugh. That's such a relief to me. They're going on the ride and they're allowing themselves to enjoy it, even though we're traversing some dark waters.

Francesca Gregorini

#60. It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral. says the dressmaker.

Maryrose Wood

#61. Some knowledge comes to us like a seed ... Then, we have to bury it and leave it alone in the dark. When it's time, it comes up again and grows.

Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

#62. 'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Max Landis

#63. Non-Masons stay pretty much in the dark about What Goes On, though now and then something jumps out, exposes itself, jumps giggling back again, leaving you with few details but a lot of Awful Suspicions. Some

Thomas Pynchon

#64. You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

Sam Keen

#65. I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#66. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

Lewis Nordan

#67. Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark.

Dean Koontz

#68. And Derek was ... what?
A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.

Claire LaZebnik

#69. When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

Douglas Brinkley

#70. He looked to be a little over forty. Mouth somehow twisted. Clean-shaven. Dark-haired. Right eye black, left -for some reason- green. Dark eyebrows, but one higher than the other. In short, a foreigner.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#71. You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

Brandon Lee

#72. Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.
A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.
This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

Juliet Marillier

#73. Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed
You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

Munia Khan

#74. You need to let some light into whatever dark closest you're hanging out in at the moment.

James L. Rubart

#75. And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.

G. Edward Griffin

#76. It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.
("New York Blues")

Cornell Woolrich

#77. Are we broken?" I whisper as it grows dark and the hour stretches late. "I think everyone gets broken at some point.

Keary Taylor

#78. In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

Andrew Lau

#79. There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Dan Scanlon

#80. I'm actually a very dark person, so I really want to get into some really dark roles, maybe some thrillers. I've never done one of those, so I think I'd really want to get into that, but definitely something that would get lots of people talking.

Cierra Ramirez

#81. What I've written here is a message to myself. I toss it into the air
like a boomerang. It slices through the dark, lays the little soul of
some poor kangaroo out cold, and finally comes back to me.
But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw.
Boomerang, boomerang.

Haruki Murakami

#82. Some people say that once married, people tend to let themselves go. Well, he decided to go the way of Anakin and let himself go to the dark side.

Rebecca Espinoza

#83. The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

Mini Grey

#84. If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.

Steven Johnson

#85. It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

May Sarton

#86. 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

#87. I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

Lisa Unger

#88. But I'm not saying anything because I've just noticed the brick. Or rather the lack of brick. Of course, some of the dark shapes on the floor probably are bricks, but they don't look like my brick. The one that can be up against the door. But isn't.

Nicky Singer

#89. Alright, kids, who wants to try a home-made veggie sausage spiced with the secret herbs of the jungle's dark and vengeful heart? I can through some on the grill with the next round of tofu burgers.

Alex Gabriel

#90. I wish I knew how to turn the volume down on the sadness in this girl's eyes. I wish I could take her out of this dark, smelly alley and tuck her away some place safe.

Cal Armistead

#91. Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

Gillian Welch

#92. Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

David Bronstein

#93. Some truths can only be seen in the dark.

Marty Rubin

#94. I wanted to say something, protest in some way, but then i felt the heat of him against the wetness i'd created, and i could've sworn i heard us sizzle. ~ Livvie

C.J. Roberts

#95. Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

Joseph Campbell

#96. Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.

Catherynne M Valente

#97. I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

Ed Speleers

#98. I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

Josh Lucas

#99. Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

George R R Martin

#100. Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Stephen King