Dark Quotes
Enna Snow
Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.
2000Jess C. Scott
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
1881 Karl Lagerfeld
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
4382 Ashly Lorenzana
The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.
4638 Joss Whedon
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
1317 Simona Panova
Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –
1402 Mark R. Brand
For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.
3399 Mother Teresa
The moment passed - but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.
2367 Richard P. Denney
The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.
2272 Whitney Barbetti
Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.
3675 Blue Balliett
What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.
3680 Denis Diderot
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.
1316 Munia Khan
Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy
2087 Danny Maximus
I used to live my life at night in the shadow of my dark past, I lived in shadows for so long until the dark became my world, but then you came and flipped on a light, at first I was blinded, It was so bright, but over time my eyes adjusted and I could see and now whats in focus is our future, bright, brighter than it's ever been
2181 Simona Panova
The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.
3844 Amanda Grace
It's not fair. It's not fair that he lets his rage take over, that he lets it rule him. I don't know why he has to let it rule him. I don't know why he has to be two people.
I don't know why he gets to be two people, and I only get to be me, the one who is here to take what he has to give, and who is here to pick pu the pieces afterward.
4764 Shel Silverstein
The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.
4688 Edgar Allan Poe
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
1687 Oscar Wilde
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
1003 Holly Black
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
4031 Kelli Jae Baeli
You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.
1393 Mike Norton
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
2605 Kurt Vonnegut
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.
And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
4728 Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.
2571 Jess C. Scott
Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.
4942 Christina Dodd
Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.
4253 Lee Argus
Through the darkest hours of the night
and through the dreamers realm I seek,
Far beyond the starry sky
and beyond galaxies I am free.
Through the grimmest memories
and past a seasons air I cannot breathe,
Far beyond this mortal world
in an afterlife we shall meet.
3014 Gwenn Wright
My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?
1273 Pepper Winters
Sometimes, the only way to make your dreams come true is to shatter them.
1295 Jess C. Scott
One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.
“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.
4437 Kimberly Perry
A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin
1847 Mike Norton
The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
2991 Craig D. Lounsbrough
In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.
4122 Anne Stuart
I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.
4464 Stephen King
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
4527 L.J. Smith
People Die...
Beauty Fades...
Love Changes...
And You Will Always Be Alone
3114 Nenia Campbell
Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.
4419 Stephen King
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
1162 Slade Combs
Believe that you are someone worth saving.
3380 Slade Combs
There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.
1149 Slade Combs
Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.
1221 Slade Combs
The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
2656 Casey Renee Kiser
I can't get his bones
to go down the fucking drain.
I try to stuff the tiny holes,
too tiny for this pain.
I can't get his bones
to break any way for my gain.
Break them back a little too far,
never too far for the sake of sane.
3351 Lois McMaster Bujold
Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time-these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.
2406 Derek Landy
Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!'
Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back.
3433 Carla H. Krueger
Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.
3922 Carla H. Krueger
Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
3917 Carla H. Krueger
It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
3842 Carla H. Krueger
He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.
1715 Carla H. Krueger
A black-haired bitch with man’s hands, widow Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch makes all the important decisions. She is a power-hungry dominatrix. Orwell is her slave. (No one ever sees him.)
1344 Carla H. Krueger
Do I need to fire the little prat yet?” Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch.
3347 Carla H. Krueger
I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.
3351 Carla H. Krueger
Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.
1209 Carla H. Krueger
You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
1147 Carla H. Krueger
Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?
1975 Carla H. Krueger
Kalist brings out his best for the clincher. “You’ve never really loved your wife, have you, Ridley?
3137 Carla H. Krueger
Obelmäker always suspected Kalist of being a driven man with a determined selfishness that verged on sociopathic, but he actually appears to be suffering for once, in a humane way, like one who has been driven and selfish previously, but has slowly started to see the gigantic error of his ways.
4382 Carla H. Krueger
Baumauer wants a life in which he cannot be belittled, judged or controlled by worse men.
3813 Carla H. Krueger
To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.
3881 Carla H. Krueger
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.
3018 Carla H. Krueger
Kalist is in his office with the door shut, secretly adding the final touches to his new Brichacek doll; she’s got rosy, plaster cheeks and his nose hairs for pubes, although he thinks he might die them blond to go with her hair.
2299 Carla H. Krueger
Kalist likes to listen to the collective voices swell as more individuals in his colony arrive.
4224 Carla H. Krueger
Obelmäker is a deeply fearful person and terribly indecisive. Even when he makes a choice, it’s usually bad.
3600 Carla H. Krueger
An overnight bag with the company logo – a white silhouette of a finch (which once perched on the curved back of a stallion representing cofounder, Orwell, but has now been ‘adjusted’) – sits motionless beside him on the carpet, sucking up bedbugs.
2673 Carla H. Krueger
You’re a fat cunt and you can’t add up to save your life.” Dimitri Pissec.
1906 Carla H. Krueger
Opposite Pissec sits ghoulish Gottfried Baumauer, a tall, skinny workaholic with dark-ringed eye sockets and long, yellowing smoker’s fingers. He’s thirty-eight. He doesn’t say much. He drinks a lot of tea – likes it strong as tar. He lines up the strained, dry bags on his desk like dead, tailless voles.
4663 Carla H. Krueger
Obelmäker is eating at his desk, a habit both Baumauer and Pissec find repulsive.
3572 Carla H. Krueger
As Baumauer hangs his shit-coloured coat up on a hook he takes clandestine pleasure in engulfing Obelmäker’s less impressive attire with his own. Privately, he warns the inferior coat, “Don’t suffocate in there.
3604 Carla H. Krueger
Pissec approaches Pamela Geiger’s cubicle, itching in rhythm with her. He wants to ask her a question while Kalist is out of earshot. She’s not a grass, he’s sure, but stupid people die first.
4166 Markus Zusak
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
2396 Munia Khan
You can learn things from a heart so bleeding
When love bargains with deceitful pleading
Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time
Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime
3825 Haruki Murakami
Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.
4505 China Miéville
Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.
1559 Simona Panova
Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.
1140 R. Scott Bakker
I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things-all things!-but only so long as it remains invisible.
4322 Cameron Jace
Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.
3467 C.S. Friedman
All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
1054 Rosmarie Waldrop
Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.
3509 Nomad
When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are
1043 Nenia Campbell
Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.
3633 Dan Wells
People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.
3305 Heather R. Blair
The future might be dark, but darkness shared wasn't a thing to be feared.
It was to be embraced.
3400 Munia Khan
The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart
2638 Rebecca Donovan
I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep
1433 Sanhita Baruah
After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.
1250 Nenia Campbell
She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.
3555 Will.i.am
Don't be afraid of the dark
Look inside
Grab your heart
Let it shine
If it's dark outside
Shine your light
4145 Sylvain Reynard
Everyone is pretty enough in the dark,”
she whispered.
“No, they are not.” He kissed her before
pulling back abruptly, willing himself to stop.
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