Dark Quotes

5416 Dark quotes by 3005 unique authors

As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people… — George Will
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms — Joseph McCabe
Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of… — Wilferd Peterson
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or… — Bill Brandt
It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's… — Aubrey Plaza
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer,… — Truman Capote
Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a… — Sylvia Plath
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and… — Rudolf Otto
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. — Rick Springfield
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. — Dario Argento
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge,… — James Denton
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when… — Martha Plimpton
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When it is dark enough, men see the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. — George Crabbe
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and… — John Hanning Speke
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it.… — Terri Windling
Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list. — David Bronstein
True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November… — Rajneesh
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights. — Darren Shan

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