DARK QUOTES

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor
  ~ Virgil ~
• Try to be the star in a dark empty night sky.
  ~ Masrurah Hanafi ~
• Even just once, try to be the ray of sunshine in a person's dark cloud. It won't hurt.
  ~ Masrurah Hanafi ~
• Lit others way even when you are in darkness
  ~ Uzma Parveen ~
• Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
  ~ Mark Van Doren ~
• When it is darkest, men see the stars.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
  ~ Coventry Patmore ~
• The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
  ~ Ovid ~
• It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
  ~ P. G. Wodehouse ~
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
  ~ Erica Jong ~
• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
  ~ Erica Jong ~
• Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
  ~ Erica Jong ~
• Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Darker and darker but nearer it gets to the brighter a midnight before a dawn.
  ~ Blessing Adella ~
• Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
  ~ John Maynard Keynes ~
• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
  ~ Henry James ~
• We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
  ~ Henry James ~
• I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
  ~ Kevin Smith ~
• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
  ~ Meister Eckhart ~
• I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
  ~ Thom Yorke ~
• If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
  ~ Thom Yorke ~
• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
  ~ Florence Welch ~
• 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 my boat steady and my sails full.
  ~ Arthur Ashe ~
• Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
  ~ Javier Bardem ~
• My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
  ~ Michael Caine ~
• I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
  ~ Kristen Wiig ~
• When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.
  ~ Dave Eggers ~
• The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
  ~ Gus Van Sant ~
• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
  ~ Robert Plant ~
• People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
  ~ Michael Haneke ~
• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
  ~ Karl Lagerfeld ~
• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
  ~ Gail Simmons ~
• The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
  ~ Eric Bana ~
• Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.
  ~ George Saunders ~
• Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
  ~ George Jean Nathan ~
• A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
  ~ Lil Wayne ~
• A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
  ~ Lil Wayne ~
• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
  ~ Og Mandino ~
• People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
  ~ Elisabeth Kubler-ross ~
• In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
  ~ Janet Jackson ~
• In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
  ~ Janet Jackson ~
• In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
  ~ Janet Jackson ~
• In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
  ~ Janet Jackson ~
• Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
  ~ Margaret Cho ~
• But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
  ~ James Thurber ~
• Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
  ~ Karl Von Clausewitz ~
• Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
  ~ Karl Von Clausewitz ~
• My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
  ~ Giacomo Casanova ~
• One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
  ~ Ayelet Waldman ~
• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
  ~ Anna Quindlen ~
• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
  ~ Ice Cube ~
• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
  ~ Ice Cube ~
• The power of specks of dirt can build a seed that was rejected for years, turning that dark time into a huge shed for beautiful birds to nest in, and provisions that sustain the nation in just a twinkle of an eye. Give me that dirt and watch me bloom!!!
  ~ Omokpariola Elshalom ~
• The power of specks of dirt can build a seed that was rejected for years, turning that dark time into a huge shed for beautiful birds to nest in, and provisions that sustain the nation in just a twinkle of an eye. Give me that dirt and watch me bloom!!!
  ~ Omokpariola Elshalom ~
• Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
  ~ Bruce Springsteen ~
• To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
  ~ Frank Herbert ~
• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
  ~ Huston Smith ~
• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
  ~ Jack Kevorkian ~
• My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
  ~ Marianne Williamson ~
• When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
  ~ Alexis De Tocqueville ~
• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
  ~ Groucho Marx ~
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
  ~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
  ~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
  ~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~
• I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
  ~ John Cusack ~
• There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.
  ~ John Cusack ~
• No matter how beautiful dawn is , it will always get dark
  ~ Muwi Chantel ~
• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
  ~ Germaine Greer ~
• Every person at a point breaks. So much broken that the heart shatters into pieces and the pain is inevitable. But you know what the good thing about the broken heart is? It shines more brighter! Just think if a single heart shines it can brighten your body; but if the broken pieces shine together it brightens your whole of the body and soul. It's just you have to push yourself out of the dark and make it shine brighter and brighter!!
  ~ Shilpi Rani ~
• Darkness is a trap, once you get in, it's hard to escape to light, unless you know the path.
  ~ Saumili Roy ~
• I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
  ~ Sienna Miller ~