Darker Quotes

286 quotes by 249 authors

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the… — Robert Quine
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa. — Alan Ayckbourn
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and… — Nick Cave
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency… — Claude Monet
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit oneâ€™s endâ€¦.Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine. — Leonard Ravenhill
The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending… — William C. McCool
Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or… — Julius Evola
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apartâ€”idea of thing,… — Jamaica Kincaid
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. — Carter Burwell
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its… — Peter McWilliams
Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in… — Dan Kimball
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in. — Charles Hart
Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light. — Wes Fesler
No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if… — David Spangler
Of course, itâ€™s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when youâ€™re feeling down the… — Banana Yoshimoto
In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people… — Julian Fellowes
The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted… — Noel Fisher
It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. — Wendell Berry

Who Wrote These Darker Quotes

249 authors contributed a total of 286 Darker Quotes, led by these top contributors: