Quotes About Darkness

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

The town was full of murderers, gamblers and whores, few of whom might be called upon to set aside their differences and fight against the supernatural forces of evil.

It could be so cruel, hope. But for twenty years it was all she'd had to hold on to, the only thing to push back the darkness that lingered on the periphery, searching for every opportunity to enshroud her.

But as the last week of his life unfolded, Jesus did not contrive to confront these powers in the conventional manner. Rather he allowed them to spend themselves on him; he permitted the darkness of the world to envelop him. In the densely textured passion narratives of the Gospels we see all forms of human dysfunction on display. Jesus was met by betrayal, denial,

Damned be the dark ends of the earth where old horrors live again.