Quotes about dark
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“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“Numb the dark and you numb the light.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Light

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.

Past

“You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

Light

“For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Light

“As Nietzsche said, ‘that which doesn’t kill you– ’(Alexion)
Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you’re a Dark-Hunter, just a good day’s sleep. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Sleep

“I see thee better in the dark
I do not need a light.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Light

“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Captive Part II / The Power

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Life, Truth

“If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.”

Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) American poet, translator

“It’s not about finding shelter in the storm but about dancing in the rain. (Zarek - Dark hunter)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Source: Acheron

Dance

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Lie, Secret

“Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Singing

“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”

Georges Bernanos book Mouchette

Source: Mouchette

Suicide

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

World, Heart

“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Source: The Wide Net and Other Stories

Flowers, Housing

“We were restless for ages… After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Love, God, Age, Thinking

“Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

“You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Love, Life, Children, Kiss

“when we release our dark side, it will completely overshadow the best in us.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it!”

Amy Lee (1981) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Love

“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Feeling

“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Horse

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: Marilyn

World, Search, Knowledge

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Fear, Light, Joy

“White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious.. Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Love, Guy

“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“I am too dark in my heart tonight.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Heart

“Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Hell

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

Books, Reading

“I will steal your dreams tonight.

Dark”

Yukiru Sugisaki (1974) Manga artist

Dreams

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Past

“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

War, Nature, Light

“Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Light, Dance

“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Life, Heart

“I always thought I was happy being the dark star to your supernova.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Star, Happiness

“Close your eyes and stare into the dark.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”

Agnes de Mille (1905–1993) American dancer and choreographer

“The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

World, Light

“… only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.”

David Eddings book King of the Murgos

Source: King of the Murgos

Light

“In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables

Source: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XI : The Arched Window

Heart

“He smiled at two people walking by: a tall, good-looking boy with a streak of white in his dark hair and a brunette girl whose eyes were shaded by sunglasses. They ignored him. But”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

People, Smile, Girl, Boy

“He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Love, Shoe, Imagination, Water

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Light

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Pain, Question, Solitude, Silence

“His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

People, Color, Light, Night

“Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid)
Ash has a companion? (Zarek)
(The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.)
Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Stupidity

“Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.”

Patricia A. McKillip book Harpist in the Wind

Source: Harpist in the Wind

Law, Night

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

Roald Dahl The BFG

Source: The BFG

World, Sleep, Night

“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Lie, Mountain, Sea

“One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Appearance, Night

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician

Love, Beauty, Feeling

“Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Pain, Hate, People, Anger

“Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul”

Catherine Fisher (1957) Welsh children's writer

Source: The Dark City

Soul, Loss

“True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.”

Shūsaku Endō (1923–1996) author from Japan

Source: Scandal

Men, Religion, Heart

“Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Men, Night

“Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.”

Mark Mirabello (1955) American writer

Source: The Cannibal Within

“When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Life, Light

“Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Change

“Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Way

“It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness."

Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Insatiable

“It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.”

Graham Hancock (1950) British writer and journalist

Sense, Universe

“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.

Light

“I have an idea," Simon said. "Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?"

"Vividly," Jace said. "It was a dark time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?
Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Idea, Time

“Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: I is for Innocent

Heart

“It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

“He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair… He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Enchanted

Men

“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will…”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

“Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can’t help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

People, Soul, Help

“Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

"BOG VENUS VERSUS NAZI COCK-RING: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography" in Arthur magazine, Vol. 1, No. 25 (November 2006) http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1685 <br class="br">Source: 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom <br class="br">Context: Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course.

Age, Literature, Mathematics

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Secret