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Quotes About Dark

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
~ Mary Shelley
A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.
~ Mary Zimmerman
It's everyone's dream... Come to Ellingham Academy, move a ramp out of a hole in the dark. - Nate
~ Maureen Johnson
He waved irritably at a waiter. There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened bartender stood for long stretches of time without moving. When called upon, he moved with contemptuous slowness. His job was that of servant to men's relaxation and pleasure, but his manner was that of an embittered quack ministering to some guilty disease.
~ Ayn Rand
the dark, cluttered, polished mahogany splendor of the Sanborns' Victorian drawing room. Mr. Sanborn wavered. Roark asked, his arm sweeping out at the room around them: "Is this
~ Ayn Rand
The eyes were dark and startling. They held such a wealth of intellect and of twinkling gaiety that his glasses seemed to be worn not to protect his eyes but to protect other men from their excessive brilliance.
~ Ayn Rand
When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after dark and you don't pick your fellow's pockets to buy classical symphonies or fishing tackle
~ Ayn Rand
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.—Henry James
~ Azar Nafisi
the weather had quickly turned cold and dark, an arctic wind stripping the trees bare of leaves, as if the unusually mild weather we had enjoyed on election night had been merely part of an elaborate set
~ Barack Obama
So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Storm in a shot glass type of thing. And Angus was the opposite. A whole ocean, dark and chill.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It was the Tower. The Dark Tower. It stood on the horizon of a vast plain the color of blood in the violent setting of a dying sun. He couldn't see the stairs which spiraled up and up and up within its brick shell, but he could see the windows which spiraled up along that staircase's way, and saw the ghosts of all the people he had ever known pass through them. Up and up they marched, and an arid wind brought him the sound of voices calling his name.
~ Stephen King
Dad-a-jum, dad-a-jiggers, goddam lobsters bit off your fingers, King said, and actually laughed.
~ Stephen King
reality is a thin skim of ice over a deep lake of dark water.
~ Stephen King
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
~ Pablo Neruda
I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
~ Joss Whedon
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
~ Kevin Smith
I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream
~ Tori Amos
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
~ Emily Bronte
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
couldn't imagine a worse crime scene than a snow-covered alleyway after dark. I'm sure one existed somewhere. I just couldn't imagine it.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded. 'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.
~ Joseph Delaney
We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors.
~ Joseph Glanvill