Dark Quotes

5416 Dark quotes by 3005 unique authors

Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water… — Jacqueline Cochran
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil. — Billy Collins
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or… — Steven Pressfield
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know… — John Steinbeck
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark… — Jack Kerouac
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave… — James A. Baldwin
How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue? — Susan Abulhawa
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;… — John Fowles
There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb,… — Fred Eaglesmith
It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on. — Neil Lennon
I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I… — Whitley Strieber
I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too.… — William J. Clinton
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the… — Stephen King
I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull… — Tim Burton
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has… — James Russell Lowell
Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being. — Swami Vivekananda
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in… — Elizabeth Berg
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears… — Ginny Brown-Waite
In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other… — Robert Breault
Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try… — Harold Klemp
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. — Jean Baudrillard
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare

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