Quotes About Darkness

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

I do tend to fall to the dark side of things visually sometimes.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

People like her because she's like a breath of fresh air. Because in the fifth book it gets so dark and Harry's always cross and then every time Luna comes in all the tension goes and she makes you laugh because she's so funny and really honest. I don't know how much I'm like her, there are some similarities but I'm more determined than her.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

I'm terrified of the ocean. I think it's beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it - I think that's a metaphor for a lot of things.

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

Terror made me cruel.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.

We mustn't doubt in the darkness what God has showed us in the light.

My duties led me into the darkest cellars as well as the most beautiful cathedrals; often I found the cellar illuminated with a holy light, and the cathedral dark.

As the globe revolves Different mixes keep passing into the light Or into the dark, and then back out again: The unexpected, over and over again. Jefferson's July 2 draft blamed George III For violating the liberty of "a People Who never offended him" shipped off to be "Slaves in another hemisphere." For many "Miserable death in transportation thither." On the Fourth of July, that passage was left out. Thither.