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Quotes About Dark

In my lands night is where people to evil to enemies they call friends in the day. It's when sihrs and jinns come play, and people scheme and plot. Children grow to fear it because they think there be monsters . They build a whole thing about it, about night and dark and even the colour black, which is not even a colour here. Not here. Here evil has no qualm with striking at noon. But it leaves night beautiful in look and cool of feel.
~ Marlon James
I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.
~ Marlon James
It was a fine night for treachery - dark with a pale moon rising.
~ Unknown
I have to leave," she gasped. "I have to go back. If they see us—" "They will not see us. And you cannot leave yet, the wager is only half paid." "But you said—" "A kiss. A long sweet kiss. And that"—his dark head bent to her again—"was not long enough, my lady. Not nearly long enough.
~ Unknown
I feel terribly strange, like a shadow, and full of dread. I dread the time ahead, the amputating time, I do not see how to manage it. I do not want the world to go dark and narrow and mean, and the world has been very unlovely in my eyes, and I very unlovely in it…
~ Martha Gellhorn
If someone were to come up to you in a dark alley and say, "Psst, wanna see a UML diagram?" that diagram would probably be a class diagram.
~ Martin Fowler
Vacuum energy is the leftovers from dark energy, just like the déjà vu's in our everyday life.
~ Unknown
When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us In the dark don't we know And when we are paralyzed by nightmares We know what you are. With our first cries we rail against you. We see you in every drop of blood in every tear.
~ Martine Leavitt
Dark humor might have offended some on the other side of the blue line, but it was how cops coped with very grim realities.
~ Mary Burton
The moment was like a tear in the fabric of their love play; underneath, the dark waters of past and future anguish lent poignancy to everything they said and did.
~ Mary Jo Putney
I stretched out my hand to Poseidon, but he sent no sign. He was away perhaps, shaking the earth somewhere. All about us I felt another power, dark, past man's thoughts, giver of desolation or of joy, she who can cherish or cast away but abides no question.
~ Mary Renault
Moon, moon, moon. Night, no moon? Dark. Night, yes moon? Light! Yes, moon! Ahwooooo!
~ Unknown
I felt deeply in my heart both the sorrow of one that goes and the grief of one that remains, just as a solitary bird separated from his flock in dark clouds, and wrote in answer: From this day forth, alas, The dew-drops shall wash away The letters on my hat Saying 'A party of two'.
~ Matsuo Bash?
You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.
~ Matt Haig
It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but – if that is the metaphor – you are the sky.
~ Matt Haig
To feel hope you don't need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.
~ Matt Haig
If you prefer darker roasts and you like lots of body then Brazilian or Indonesian will suit you fine. They tend to have great body, take to a dark roast well and have less acidity.
~ Unknown
Over the years, I have written about the duality in Hillary that disturbs even many Democrats. She has the bright, idealistic public service side but it is offset by a dark ends-justify-the-means side. She's confident and capable but she can also make decisions from a place of insecurity and paranoia.
~ Maureen Dowd
one which seems to be deliberately seeking the downfall of the human race. And we wonder uneasily what the state of the world will be after the great trial and what will be left of it and what will be the future of this stunted race, shorn of all the best and noblest part of it. The problem is certainly one of the darkest that have ever vexed the minds of men.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
~ Max Ehrmann
What the Red Army did in Germany was the darkest stain on its record in the war.
~ Max Hastings
Near a large inn, the 'Roter Krug,' stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture.
~ Max Hastings
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.
~ Meat Loaf
A professor once described the brain to me as a great silent vault. A dark theater with nothing. playing on the screen. Just electrical charges bouncing corner to corner, like lightbulbs flashing off and on.
~ Megan Abbott