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Quotes About Dark

He watched the eternity of the sky. The dark was restful, but the vastness was cold and made you draw something close to you.
~ Elmore Leonard
Paris, pareil à un pan de ciel étoilé tombé sur un coin de la terre noire, lui apparut sévère et comme fâché de son retour.
~ Émile Zola
For Madame Raquin, there was such a fathomless depth in this thought, that she could neither reason it out, nor grasp it clearly. She experienced but one sensation, that of a horrible disaster; it seemed to her that she was falling into a dark, cold hole. And she said to herself: "I shall be smashed to pieces at the bottom.
~ Émile Zola
The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This dark night has won me to wander far away; old feelings gather fast upon me.
~ Emily Bronte
I dream of moon and misty hill Where evening gathers, dark and chill
~ Emily Bronte
Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving— Come back and dwell with me.
~ Emily Bronte
We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.
~ Emily Dickinson
I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.
~ Emily Dickinson
Part Four: Time and Eternity CXIV I SING to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, 5 We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.
~ Emily Dickinson
After all, you reach the mundane, comfortable moments only when a relationship is working. When it's not working, the passion morphs into something twisted and dark. Drama. Jealousy. A never-ending power struggle.
~ Emily Giffin
And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
~ Emma Donoghue
So. In open ocean, drifting blind now, and with no way to stop moving through the dark. It is Artt who's brought them to this extremity, and it's too late for doubt. 'Never mind. We won't founder,' he assures them. 'We travel in the palm of God's hand.
~ Emma Donoghue
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
~ Erica Jong
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
~ Erica Jong
I was important to you," he said, seeing his angel, seeing his love of the game, and feeling like they had both become bigger than that dark night behind them.
~ Amy Lane
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.
~ Amy Schumer
the antique windows and made the just-in-case candles on the dark countertop sputter. She pulled the fuzzy bathrobe closer around her neck. Normally the kitchen's stained glass spilled peacock-bright color into the kitchen.
~ Amy Shojai
We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged....
~ Andrei Sakharov
Nevada sighed. "Am I alone in finding the whole notion of the dark web dispiriting? I don't suppose it's full of cat videos?" "Only very dark cat videos," said Tinkler.
~ Andrew Cartmel
You sometimes hear the back side of the Moon (the side we never see) called the "dark side." This is a misunderstanding of the real situation: which side is light and which is dark changes as the Moon moves around Earth. The back side is dark no more frequently than the front side. Since the Moon rotates, the Sun rises and sets on all sides of the Moon. With apologies to Pink Floyd, there is simply no regular "Dark Side of the Moon.
~ Andrew Fraknoi
There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends.
~ Allan Guthrie
I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.
~ Ellen Datlow
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
~ Monica Seles
I try to weigh out the dark and the light. They were both very real aspects of my Dad. To me, the good and the healing and the light outweigh the dark so much, and that's why I focus on the good.
~ John Carter Cash