Quotes about dark
dark animal night
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger. Cornelia Funke
dark thinking hair
This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was. It's a cruel world, don't you think?' Meggie went on. 'Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.' With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. 'They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
darkness-within world assuming
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
dark roots profound
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. Cornel West
dark fighting soul
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
dark pessimistic telling-the-truth
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
dark men rocks
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth. Cormac McCarthy
darkness matter no-matter-what
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
darkness cobwebs
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for. Colum McCann
dark shining lessons
Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.
darkness blind one-thing
It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness. Coventry Patmore
dark laughing interesting
I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me. Amy Seimetz
dark scary actors
It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side. Amy Ryan
dark say-anything shock
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value. Amy Schumer
dark vacation perfect
Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting. Anthony Bourdain
dark light tree
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty. Andy Rooney
dark desire needs
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. Andrew Pyper
dark voice giving
The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand. Andrew Peterson
dark good-person term
I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that. Amy Hill
dark moon perspective
The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture. Ang Lee
dark men thinking
I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong. Amanda Seyfried
dark men cooking
'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. Alton Brown
dark light mind
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate... Anne Carson
dark wings house
Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. Anne Frank
dark wish world
But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more. Ann Aguirre
dark sky dust
I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
dark light six-months
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room... Andrew Wiles
dark two fire
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark. Andrew Vachss
dark giving drug
...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer... Andrew Weil
dark world sacred
We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged.... Andrei Sakharov
dark ends left
Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark. Andrei Platonov
dark hands cry
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Chuck Palahniuk
dark despair awful
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.