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Quotes About Dark

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.
~ Bob Dylan
He looked like he came out of nightmare alley.
~ Bob Dylan
Caught by surprise, Kelly had gone dark for several hours. He'd had to call his wife and explain that he had no choice but to accept after being offered one of the most important jobs in the world via tweet.
~ Bob Woodward
Was it his eyes, which were dark and piercing, like staring into the muzzle of a Glock 19?
~ Brad Meltzer
It was a dark day. A chill wind blew snowflakes against the window of Mr Norrell's library where Childermass sat writing business letters. Though it was only ten o'clock in the morning the candles were already lit. The only sounds were the coals being consumed in the grate and the scratch of Childermass's pen against the paper.
~ Susanna Clarke
My choices were either too much alcohol or a whirl with my vibrator, and I was damned if I'd have a battery-provided orgasm starring Dark and Dangerous.
~ Sylvia Day
a decade as notable for its supreme faith in human rationality as for its dark anxieties about mankind's survival [...]
~ Sylvia Nasar
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?
~ Sylvia Plath
your fate involves a dark assailant
~ Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.   I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath
And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
~ T.S. Eliot
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.
~ Tamora Pierce
She was troubled to find herself so joyous in the face of such dark tomorrows, weird bargains, terrible uncertainties.
~ Tanith Lee
Mercurio was at times given to the darkest of dark reveries, cloaking them, masking them even from himself, with songs and tricks, or displays of mocking and mostly controlled lunacy.
~ Tanith Lee
Yeshua shows us a Way of being saved in the midst of all that we think threatens us on the dark seas of our lives here on earth.
~ Ted Dekker
How could she, who'd drowned and found new life, question the reality of Elyon now, just because the world was dark?
~ Ted Dekker
exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen "Eyes," and was in hysterics.
~ Julian Hawthorne
A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions
~ Julien Green
These Poems - 1936-2002 These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready? These words they are stones in the water running away These skeletal lines they are desperate arms for my longing and love. I am a stranger learning to worship the strangers around me whoever you are whoever I may become.
~ June Jordan
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There's a temple to a dark god or some such in the basement. I'll be there." "Ah, yes…that can happen if one doesn't keep an eye on the drains…
~ Kaja Foglio
My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses
~ Kamila Shamsie