The Dark Quotes

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.

To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it.

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.

...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

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 it's meant to come.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

I don't remember a voice On a dark, lonesome road When I started this journey so long ago I was only just trying to outrun the noise There was never a question of having a choice

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.

Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.