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Quotes About Dark

Hotels are really scary. There are a lot of haunted ones in L.A. that I want to check out. So many people come in and out, and a lot of them can be dark. That dark gets locked in the hotel and stays there.
~ Evan Peters
My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.
~ Caroline Polachek
I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife" - Hannibal Lecter
~ Thomas Harris
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member—No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds—November!
~ Thomas Hood
He kept at true good humour's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
That it was noble for the dark and slavish times in which it was erected, is granted.
~ Thomas Paine
She felt grief move within her like a barefoot woman flitting through a dark house.
~ Thrity Umrigar
I think Noah Hawley's writing is hilarious, and I love a good dark joke.
~ Carrie Coon
With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'
~ Charlie Brooker
I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.
~ Kevin Macdonald
I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.
~ Paresh Rawal
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
My first two novels were very black comedies.
~ Hilary Mantel
The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
~ Mark Billingham
Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.
~ Limmy
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
~ Karen Elson
I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must know how to navigate through the matrix or you may find yourself in a very dark hole.
~ Nick Cannon
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
~ O. Henry
Whenever I find myself talking of the beauty and the poetry of the Bosphorus and Istanbul's dark streets, a voice inside me warns against exaggeration, a tendency perhaps motivated by a wish not to acknowledge the lack of beauty in my own life. If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too. A
~ Orhan Pamuk
A city's intellect ought to be measured not by its scholars, libraries, miniaturists, calligraphers and schools, but by the number of crimes insidiously committed on its dark streets over thousands of years.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.
~ Orson Scott Card
it was a kind of magic, like her little fires; a sacrifice that somehow stilled the dark gods that hunted for his soul. Better
~ Orson Scott Card
I will always wonder what it was, what that moment of beauty was, when he whispered it to me, when we found him smashed up in the hospital, what it was he was saying when he whispered into the dark that he had seen something he could not forget, a jumble of words, a man, a building, I could not quite make it out. I can only hope that in the last minute he was at peace.
~ Colum McCann
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.
~ Cormac McCarthy