Top Dark Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Dark quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ray Bradbury
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: Dark
Image of Jeff Ross
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?
- Jeff Ross
Collection: Dark
Image of Lorenzo Snow
Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.
- Lorenzo Snow
Collection: Dark
Image of Egon Schiele
I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
- Egon Schiele
Collection: Dark
Image of Jeanette Winterson
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Dark
Image of Matthew Perry
I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.
- Matthew Perry
Collection: Dark
Image of Kathryn Stockett
I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
- Kathryn Stockett
Collection: Dark
Image of Ryan Reynolds
Laughing can serve you in dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out.
- Ryan Reynolds
Collection: Dark
Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Collection: Dark
Image of Stella Gibbons
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
- Stella Gibbons
Collection: Dark
Image of Anna Deavere Smith
Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
- Anna Deavere Smith
Collection: Dark
Image of Helen Oyeyemi
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us.
- Helen Oyeyemi
Collection: Dark
Image of Peter L. Berger
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.
- Peter L. Berger
Collection: Dark
Image of Peter Straub
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.
- Peter Straub
Collection: Dark
Image of Joss Whedon
I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
- Joss Whedon
Collection: Dark
Image of Mary Downing Hahn
The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS
- Mary Downing Hahn
Collection: Dark
Image of David Wong
They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.
- David Wong
Collection: Dark
Image of Laird Barron
Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
- Laird Barron
Collection: Dark
Image of N. T. Wright
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
- N. T. Wright
Collection: Dark
Image of Amber Tamblyn
I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."
- Amber Tamblyn
Collection: Dark
Image of MacDonald Harris
Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.
- MacDonald Harris
Collection: Dark
Image of Andy Summers
'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is was a very apt metaphor for making music - or any creative act, really. We all start in the dark and have to create light.
- Andy Summers
Collection: Dark
Image of Charles M. Schulz
It just seems that if you hang on for a while longer, there is always something bright around the corner, or the dark clouds will go away and there will be sunshine again.
- Charles M. Schulz
Collection: Dark
Image of Brian Falkner
But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.
- Brian Falkner
Collection: Dark
Image of Jedediah Berry
Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.
- Jedediah Berry
Collection: Dark
Image of Devon Monk
The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.
- Devon Monk
Collection: Dark
Image of Charles Finch
When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.
- Charles Finch
Collection: Dark
Image of Robin Wasserman
Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.
- Robin Wasserman
Collection: Dark
Image of Robin Wasserman
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
- Robin Wasserman
Collection: Dark
Image of Joan Bauer
When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
- Joan Bauer
Collection: Dark
Image of Rosemary Sutcliff
We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
- Rosemary Sutcliff
Collection: Dark
Image of Benjamin Rush
...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.
- Benjamin Rush
Collection: Dark
Image of Kami Garcia
In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
- Kami Garcia
Collection: Dark
Image of Guillermo del Toro
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
- Guillermo del Toro
Collection: Dark
Image of Anna Paquin
People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.
- Anna Paquin
Collection: Dark
Image of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Collection: Dark
Image of Laurie R. King
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.
- Laurie R. King
Collection: Dark
Image of Krist Novoselic
The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
- Krist Novoselic
Collection: Dark
Image of Conor Oberst
I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having.
- Conor Oberst
Collection: Dark
Image of William Tyndale
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
- William Tyndale
Collection: Dark
Image of Mary Pope Osborne
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!
- Mary Pope Osborne
Collection: Dark
Image of Michelle Pfeiffer
Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
Collection: Dark
Image of Walter Moers
For some miracles can only occur in the dark.
- Walter Moers
Collection: Dark
Image of John of the Cross
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
- John of the Cross
Collection: Dark
Image of Joseph Delaney
None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.
- Joseph Delaney
Collection: Dark
Image of Mike Mignola
But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
- Mike Mignola
Collection: Dark
Image of Arina Tanemura
In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!
- Arina Tanemura
Collection: Dark
Image of R.L. LaFevers
I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.
- R.L. LaFevers
Collection: Dark
Image of Flannery O'Connor
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Dark