Dark Quotes

5416 quotes by 3197 authors

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it… — Darren Aronofsky
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep… — Arthur Ashe
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.… — Margaret Atwood
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the… — Francis Bacon
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head… — Russell Baker
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way… — Drew Barrymore
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover… — L. Frank Baum
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,… — Charles A. Beard
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and… — Diane Abbott
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into… — Ingmar Bergman
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust… — Corrie Ten Boom
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky. — Jo Brand

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