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Quotes About Dark

The days are unexpectedly mild. It doesn't feel that far from summer, not really, if it weren't for the underbite of the day, the lacy creep of the dark and the damp at its edges, the plants calm in the folding themselves away, the beads of the condensation on the webstrings hung between things.
~ Ali Smith
One blink of a camera eye (can't quite put his finger on the name of the photographer) and that child dressed in leaves became all these things: sad, terribly, beautiful, funny, terrifying, dark, light, charming, fairystory, folkstory, truth.
~ Ali Smith
Sylvie made a noise in the range of an assent, but short of true acquiescence.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
bewildered were the dead going about their days and nights in the dark putting their feet down carefully and finding themselves floating
~ Alice Oswald
Instead of Image, we possess Word. . . . words, unlike images, are powerful yet indeterminate, slip and slide and escape when you think you have them pinned, contain immeasurable dark interiors. An image is motionless, timeless. It gives itself to you immediately. But language moves, it exists only in time, in history, the past melting and rushing toward the future, provoking you, dancing away [ Out of the Garden ].
~ Alicia Ostriker
Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.
~ Alison Croggon
I know it is a time of fear, but equally we should be wary of fearing too much and suspecting where suspicion is pointless. The Dark seeks just such erosions of trust for they serve its purpose.
~ Alison Croggon
What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.
~ Alison Croggon
He'd imagined a dark, grim mining village, full of slack faced children, the product of a long term inbreeding programme.
~ Allan Watson
I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
~ Allen Ginsberg
And how long did you have to starve in a cave to come to that conclusion?" I ask, sorry about the way my voice sounded much snottier than intended. It's not his fault I find myself here. Still, when Paloma said I'd have to change my diet in order to purify myself, I didn't realize that meant fasting in a dark, abandoned cave until I pass out.
~ Alyson Noel
I love lace because it can be really feminine, sexy, or dark. There are so many ways to wear it, no matter what your style.
~ Bria Vinaite
When you're out in the military situation, you can't take pictures at night because flashlights. So at night and in bad weather and in dark weather, the cameras went into the fish tackling box, which was waterproof, and I would just use my mind and try to keep quotes there and write down little stories.
~ Horst Faas
A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On 'The Revenant' sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather. And it was very dark.
~ Emmanuel Lubezki
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
~ Gary Wolf
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.
~ Gerard Way
It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.
~ Catriona Gray
When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
~ Dan Smith
I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.
~ Carrie Brownstein
The largest country with the largest consumption of skin bleach in the world is India. Indian men are bleaching their skin because, in terms of marriage, if your skin is dark, it's assumed you work in a field. If your skin is lighter, it's assumed you work in an office because you're not getting enough sun. Indian men are bleaching their skin.
~ Bill Duke
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.
~ Andrea Seigel
I think most people's conversations are as light as they are dark. That's how life is.
~ Karen Kilgariff
I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.
~ Michael Keaton