Dark Quotes · Page 138

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history;…

— Eric Hoffer

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little…

— Cormac McCarthy

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

— Luke Rhinehart

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,…

— Francis Bacon

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

— Cory Doctorow

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...

— Dean Koontz

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in…

— Joachim Gauck

'Doctor Who' is pretty dark, I think. Generally it's dark; it's always been dark.

— Ben Wheatley

This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left…

— Tana French

War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a…

— Tite Kubo

“In the forgotten corners, a dark shadow emerges from the hard and often frozen earth. Like a secret, long hidden in the…

— DarkNightBeacon

But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but…

— Harlan Coben

Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank…

— Greg Rucka

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;…

— Sigmund Freud

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's…

— Dustin Hoffman

It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would…

— Emily Dickinson

For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it…

— Jami Attenberg

“My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you.”

— M.A. Stacie

“It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.”

— Dave Eggers

“I don’t think ‘fear’ is the right word for his kind,” Hoffman observed. “It’s milked out of them before they are released…

— Michael Parker

“Your sight takes you where there is light... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think most people's conversations are as light as they are dark. That's how life is.

— Karen Kilgariff

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

— Hillary Clinton

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

— Eugene O'Neill

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

— Steven Wright

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

— Nancy Hale

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.

— Tracy Martin

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

— Jessica Szohr

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and…

— Heidi Julavits

“It's dark meets light; it's chaotic perfection; it's everything I fear, want, and need.”

— Anna Todd

I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh.

— Ty Segall

My parents put us to sleep by tossing us up in the air. Of course, you have to have low ceilings for…

— Anonymous

I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it.

— Tom Felton

I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.

— Zach Braff

For someone who is rarely on time, my body clock always knows when it's too early to go to bed and I…

— Sarah Millican

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

— John Bradshaw