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Quotes About Darkness

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
~ Terrence Howard
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.
~ Joe Dempsie
I think there's something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with - head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake, but ultimately always moral. That's incredibly, incredibly inspiring, and that's honestly what I think.
~ Paul Greengrass
Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
~ Adam Hamilton
There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'
~ Todd Phillips
No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.
~ Murray Bartlett
I feel like I'm Dracula, dude, like, um... Nosferatu, you know.
~ Tech N9ne
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
~ Mark Haddon
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
~ Terry Jones
Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.
~ Michael J. Massimino
War is like night, she said. It covers everything.
~ Elie Wiesel, Dawn
It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.
~ Ben Crenshaw
By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.
~ Mohammad Marandi
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out.
~ Wilfred Owen, Poems
Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.
~ Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.
~ Kristin Hannah, Summer Island
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
~ Parke Godwin
As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.
~ Anthony Liccione
Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
~ John Connolly, The Infernals
As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
~ Dmitry Glukhovsky
The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.
~ Chris Womersley, Bereft
And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together
~ Billy Joel