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Quotes About Dark

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
~ Brad Paisley
Then we compare the predicted abundance of such a WIMP with the actual abundance of dark matter.
~ Sean Carroll
It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots".
~ Sebastian Barry
That place where I was born was a cold town. Even the mountains stood away. They were not sure, no more than me, of that dark spot, those same mountains. There was a black river that flowed through the town, and if it had no grace for mortal beings, it did for swans, and many swans resorted there, and even rode the river like some kind of plunging animal, in floods.
~ Sebastian Barry
It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you or your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots.
~ Sebastian Barry
Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life.
~ Sebastian Barry
He was beautiful, but even more so in his formal attire, with his dark hair and pale eyes. His glistening sword hung at his side, and his tall boots shined in the candlelight.
~ Serena Valentino
This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it's just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor.
~ Shailene Woodley
Under the spell of the mighty Carpathians, with the breath of her creation blowing over her heart, Amalia's Gift splintered. She was given two futures: one dark, one bright, the same mortal lover pulling her two-handed into each. Every step she took lured her closer to the dark.
~ Shana Abé
There's an unseen river of communication that forever flows—dark and powerful. Tonight was about food and laughter, yes. But it was also about navigatin' that river." A
~ Sharon M. Draper
Before I turned out the light, he touched my face, then turned away, then the dark.
~ Sharon Olds
I recognize the fog in the air, the shining of her dark hair that curls around a finger like a night wood shaving, I know her thrill and fear of being observed
~ Sharon Olds
I love the light as much as I love the dark. It's such a beautiful balance.
~ Sheila Parker
There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside
~ Paul Bowles
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
~ John Cusack
A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.
~ Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart
Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.
~ Matt Haig
the dark heart of the story that is all the reason for its telling?
~ Mary Oliver
Give me that dark moment; I will carry it everywhere like a mouthful of rain. — Mary Oliver, from "Pen and Paper and a Breath of Air: Excerpts," Blue Pastures . (Mariner Books; 1 edition November 10, 1995)
~ Mary Oliver
Somewhere in the universe, in the gallery of important things, the babyish owl, ruffled and rakish, sits on its pedestal. Dear, dark dapple of plush! A message, reads the label, from that mysterious conglomerate: Oblivion and Co. The hooked head stares from its blouse of dark, feathery lace. It could be a valentine.
~ Mary Oliver