Dark Quotes

5416 Dark quotes by 3005 unique authors

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay — Monica Seles
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the… — Monica Seles
The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer… — E. L. James
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom… — Sherwood Anderson
This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community --… — Rush Limbaugh
All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark… — Thom Yorke
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark… — Wassily Kandinsky
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you,… — Morrie Schwartz
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,… — George Eliot
Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the… — Poul Anderson
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. — Poul Anderson
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the… — Olaf Stapledon
What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched… — Yuri Gagarin
Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying… — Valentina Tereshkova
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but… — George R. R. Martin
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? — Ursula K. Le Guin
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter… — Edward Bellamy
No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it… — Mike Tyson
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in… — Malcolm X
The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years.… — Cesar Chavez
For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut… — Audre Lorde
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are… — Mark Helprin
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins. — Matthew Woodring Stover

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