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title: "31 Darkly Quotes by 28 authors"
description: "Browse 31 Darkly quotes by 28 authors. Discover the best Darkly sayings and thoughts."
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> [I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-want-to-live-darkly-and-richly-in-my-femaleness/)

[Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/)

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> [I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stuart-calverley/i-sit-alone-at-present-dreaming-darkly-of-a-dun/)

[Charles Stuart Calverley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stuart-calverley/)

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> [My stars shine darkly over me](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/my-stars-shine-darkly-over-me/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/i-am-borne-darkly-fearfully-afar/)

[Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/)

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> [“Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/darkly-deeply-beautifully-blue-the-sky/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-t-vollmann/the-hospital-bulked-darkly-in-the-darkness/)

[William T. Vollmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-t-vollmann/)

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> [“O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/o-radiant-dark-o-darkly-fostered-ray-thou-hast-a-joy-too-deep-for/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [“He laughs more darkly. You are so fucking mine you don't even know how mine you are.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katy-evans/he-laughs-more-darkly-you-are-so-fucking-mine-you-don-t-even-know-how/)

[Katy Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katy-evans/)

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> [“I don’t like to talk about the chickens,” said Miss Fitzhugh darkly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-don-t-like-to-talk-about-the-chickens-said-miss-fitzhugh-darkly/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-johnson/someone-observed-darkly-that-it-is-always-two-a-m-when-one-is-in-the/)

[Robert A. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-johnson/)

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> [“Do you like being rich?” “Yes. Show me someone who doesn’t,” he says darkly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-james/do-you-like-being-rich-yes-show-me-someone-who-doesn-t-he-says-darkly/)

[E.L. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-james/)

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> [“How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-maguire/how-she-wanted-to-put-away-adult-things-and-go-back-to-seeing-through/)

[Gregory Maguire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-maguire/)

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> [“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/strange-how-paranoia-can-link-up-with-reality-now-and-then-philip-k/)

[Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/)

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> [I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-do-not-want-to-be-the-leader-i-refuse-to-be-the-leader-i-want-to-2/)

[Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/)

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> [In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/in-a-scanner-darkly-as-in-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-all/)

[Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/)

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> [The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-arnold/the-glass-of-your-life-is-darkened-and-darkly-through-it-you-see/)

[George Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-arnold/)

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> [The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/the-pretensions-of-final-truth-are-always-partlyan-effort-to-obscure/)

[Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/)

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> [There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/there-is-a-wonderful-expression-seeing-through-a-glass-darkly/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

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> [I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-winter/i-ve-had-ideas-for-romantic-comedies-but-it-would-be-a-much-more/)

[Terence Winter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-winter/)

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> [All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/all-out-of-doors-looked-darkly-in-at-him-through-the-thin-frost/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

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> [“How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak! Your eyes do menace me. Why look you pale? Who sent you hither? Wherefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shakespeare-william/how-darkly-and-how-deadly-dost-thou-speak-your-eyes-do-menace-me-why/)

[Shakespeare, William](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shakespeare-william/)

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> [“Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-allen-kirch/evil-is-nothing-more-than-that-which-was-once-divine-and-has-fallen/)

[Donald Allen Kirch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-allen-kirch/)

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> [“Everything on earth -- both the good things and the bad things -- is not given to a man according to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/everything-on-earth-both-the-good-things-and-the-bad-things-is-not/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

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> [Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/placed-on-this-isthmus-of-a-middle-state-a-being-darkly-wise-and/)

[Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/)

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> [As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/as-the-gloom-and-shadow-thickened-behind-him-in-that-place-where-it/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kris-saknussemm/robert-scott-leyse-channels-baudelaire-s-queen-of-spades-and-jack-of/)

[Kris Saknussemm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kris-saknussemm/)

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> [“In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-tchaikovsky/in-collegium-it-had-been-the-fashion-while-he-had-been-resident-there/)

[Adrian Tchaikovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-tchaikovsky/)

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> [The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-night-was-dark-and-a-cold-wind-blew-driving-the-clouds-furiously/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-stiefvater/there-s-a-metaphor-for-the-american-public-in-here-gansey-murmered/)

[Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-stiefvater/)

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> [Im just gonna hide. Another face in your perfect world. Quiet as a mouse.Secretive as a sin. Darkly beautifully. Beautifully strange ?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jade/im-just-gonna-hide-another-face-in-your-perfect-world-quiet-as-a/)

[Jade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jade/)

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> [“Because at night there is a comfort in moving darkly. In slipping through, shadow to shadow. Can’t say why. Maybe because we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/because-at-night-there-is-a-comfort-in-moving-darkly-in-slipping/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

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