Quotes About Darkness

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

Yeah, I don't like pitch-black dark. I always like to have a crack of light coming into my bedroom.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.

We won't all disappear on a remote country road in the Monroe Valley, but like The Admiral and his wife we are all going into the dark. Some of us hope that before we do we have been honest enough to scream back at the fates. Or if we never did it ourselves, that someone, derelict or poet, did it for us once in some euphonic way our inadequate capacity for love did not deny our hearing.

We won't all disappear on a remote country road in the Monroe Valley, but like The Admiral and his wife we are all going into the dark. Some of us hope that before we do we have been honest enough to scream back at the fates. Or if we never did it ourselves, that someone, derelict or poet, did it for us once in some euphonic way our inadequate capacity for love did not deny our hearing. * From Brewster Ghiselin, Against the Circle (New York: Dutton, 1946), p. 60.

Darkness is a definite experience of prayer. It is to be expected, even embraced.

Circle me, Lord, keep protection near and danger afar. Circle me, Lord, keep light near and darkness afar. Circle me, Lord, keep peace within; keep evil out. In

It doesn't take much to blindfold the heart. How easy it is to adjust our eyes to the darkness in our own souls.

That was when our love began for me, though late, the way a flock of darkness settles over your shoulders. I remember the muted reflections that smudged the water prowling among the lingering rocks, a snail crawling out of its shell, the drizzle of light, the blackened windows. It was when that the sun peeled away the dark from the air, the surface of the water, then the soul. —Richard Jackson, from "Place Message Here," The Cortland Review . Spring 2005.

Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

My head is full of monsters and I'm one of them.