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Quotes About Darkness

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
~ Terry Eagleton
Night was running ahead of itself.
~ Jorge Amado
The scariest film in the world is 'Rosemary's Baby.'
~ Chris Eigeman
A house is kind of scary.
~ Laura Dekker
The deep sea is a scary world.
~ James Wan
I've always been a night owl.
~ Blake Lively
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the night there's sometimes a sort of cursed quality to the Pacific Northwest.
~ Panos Cosmatos
Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.
~ John Densmore
As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.
~ India Eisley
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.
~ Mike McCready
Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
~ H. R. Giger
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.
~ Mathieu Kassovitz
Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.
~ Kelsey Grammer
People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.
~ Ruth Rendell
the Shadow," an unconscious element of the personality that is linked to the same animal instincts we have described,140 and which is the repository of a person's darkest desires as well as the source of human creativity141.
~ Peter Levenda
Time was wiggy in so much dark.
~ Peter Meredith
Catell reached forward, lunging and the world jarred with a screeching searing flame of red that weaved, burst, and then sank sharply into itself, leaving nothing but a total dead black.
~ Peter Rabe
The night itself wanted to touch her
~ Peter Redgrove
For in the figure of Christ we are confronted with an atomic event that does not destroy the world, but rather obliterates the way in which we exist within the world. In concrete terms, this means that the darkness and dissatisfaction that make their presence felt in our lives are not finally answered by certainty and satisfaction but are rather stripped of their weight and robbed of their sting.
~ Peter Rollins