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Quotes About Dark

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.
~ Kirk Hammett
It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
~ Karin Slaughter
I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.
~ Princess Nokia
...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You will find the lies in the light and truth in the dark
~ Treyco
He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.
~ Alaska Gold, Growing Light
Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
~ Brené Brown, Rising Strong
The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.
~ T.A. Cline
I had time to kill at the airport and it was a great opportunity for me to buy dark European chocolate, especially since I have managed to successfully convince myself that airport calories don't count. The
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A grave and dark-clad company, quoth Goodman Brown.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The dell was to be left in solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule? asked Scicpio. And what for do you look so black at me? No matter, darky, said the carpenter. Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other. [...] Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
By thy first step awry thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity. Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rowan grinned. Come now, Your Excellency, there hasn't been a terrorist in hundreds of years. I'm just a janitor cleaning filth from dark corners.
~ Neal Shusterman
Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sigils, as I recall from some dark comic book series, are symbols of medieval magic from back in the day when so few people were literate that literacy itself was seen as borderline magical. A man who could read was considered a genius. A man who could read without moving his lips was proclaimed either divine or demonic, depending on the agenda of whoever was doing the proclaiming.
~ Neal Shusterman
A sense of humor, no matter how dark, is always a good thing.
~ Neal Shusterman
The poet, sick, and with his chest half bare Tramples a manuscript in his dark stall, Gazing with terror at the yawning stair Down which his spirit finally must fall.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.
~ Charles Bukowski
Don't you go to the movies? Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.
~ Charles Bukowski
It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When she came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.
~ Charles Bukowski
Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark.
~ Charles Frazier
What band does the necromancer dance to? Boney M.)
~ Charles Stross