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Quotes About Dark

One time as dusk slipped into dark, I stood upon a stubble-hill, And saw the stars come floating in Like chaff blown from a mill. And when the dark slipped into night, I saw chaff on the plain below. (The lights of a city smouldered there In phosphorescent glow.) The plain I knew, the sky I knew, But then I wondered in dismay Which were the stars, and which the lights… And I asked the night away.
~ Elwyn Bell, "Dusk," 1926
Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.
~ Terri Guillemets
Satan called. He wants his weather back.
~ Internet meme
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, their cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of stillness, and the cold, and dark.
~ Jack London
As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark and peopled it with spirits.
~ Jack London
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.
~ Jack London
As much as I might wish for a reason I could understand, in my heart, and not only in the dark intuitive part of me that shuddered away from such comprehension, it would never come.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Bombers were the dark crows of death, sent out to lay their eggs on an unsuspecting world.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
~ James Baldwin
A fine moon rode the sky and he could see the dark marks on its face and he wondered absently if the dark was land and the rest ice and snow, and why the moon was there, and who lived there.
~ James Clavell
grace is neither bright nor dark. it merely is. it is the heart of the wielder that is either bright or dark.
~ James Clemens
Achtung, motherfuckers. And good afternoon. I'm James Ellroy; the death dog with the hog log, the white knight of the far right, and the slick trick with the donkey dick. I am the author of eighteen books, masterpieces all; they precede all my future masterpieces. They are books for the whole fucking family, if the name of your family is the Manson family.
~ James Ellroy
In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.
~ Andrew Lau
Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
~ James Nesbitt
I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.
~ Melissa Joan Hart
You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
When it comes to being under the ring, I'd either go under before the doors opened or would get snuck under in the dark while a video package played on the screen. There were times when I was underneath for six-plus hours because it wouldn't work out to sneak me under later in the show.
~ Hornswoggle
I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.
~ Kathy Burke
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
~ Josh Lucas
For people who've never seen me before, some of my material is quite a surprise. I look like your sister or neighbour, and then I come out with something quite dark or shocking, and it's so unexpected.
~ Sarah Millican
Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.
~ Brian Schatz
I would have to say fantasy RPG and MMOs are my favorite type of games. I love 'Dark Souls II.' That game is so hard and unforgiving; if you beat that game, you have true skills.
~ Demetrious Johnson
The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.
~ Kyle Schmalenberg
Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear
~ it travels everywhere