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Quotes About Dark

In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. For that reason, if the signs are not pretty strong in a particular direction, it must be some dark stranger, some wanderer from the outside world where such things happen.
~ John Steinbeck
The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated.
~ John Steinbeck
In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat down. And this thought went from evening star to the late dipper on the edge of the first light -- that our betters spoke of.
~ John Steinbeck
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has.
~ John Steinbeck
Together they pulled the door shut, and suddenly the car was dark and warm, and it throbbed like the body of a bass viol. The beat of wheels on the rail-ends grew less rapid as the freight slowed to go through the town.
~ John Steinbeck
A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
~ Bill Hader
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.
~ Donita K. Paul
People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.
~ Terry Pratchett
Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.
~ Unknown
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
~ Thomas Brooks
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
~ Maurice Sendak
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~ Francis Bacon
It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
~ Bruce Dickinson
I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
~ St. Vincent
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
~ Unknown
It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.
~ Cornell Woolrich
All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
Never have I seen a world without evil, but never have I either seen a world without good. Light and dark balanced, differences and religions set aside, we join in times of loss.
~ Unknown
GET THE ASSHOLE WHO DID THIS! #justiceforchloe OMG I LOVED HER!! #tragedy MY FAVORITE ON DARK CORNERS! NOOOOO! #chloeforever
~ Marcia Clark
I ain't much of a church man, Mark. Guess you might say I'm an agnostic. I don't know." "There's a good bit of agnostic in all of us, Calamity. None of us knows how much - only enough to trust to reach out a hand in the dark.
~ Margaret Craven
Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.
~ Unknown
The fat man, taken by surprise, was very hurt. "Search me, Missus." "I might if I had the time. Her bright eyes, small and dark as his own, took in his great bulk with wicked amusement. "What are you carrying about with you? The dome of St Paul's?" "Ho! Who's talking, eh?" As the insult went home he forgot all caution. "Margot Fonteyn of the Convent Garden I suppose.
~ Margery Allingham