Best Dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.”

“I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.”

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Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

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Author:Malcolm McDowell

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

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“I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I have a dark sense of humor.”

Dark Sense Of Humor

Author:Olivia Munn

“Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.”

Dark Ignorance Zeppelins

Author:Karen O

“'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.”

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Author:Rita Ora

“Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.”

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Author:John Milton

“The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.”

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Author:Dion Fortune

“Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.”

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Author:Bai Ling

“In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”

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Author:Dennis Lehane

“I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.”

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Author:Lloyd Grossman

“The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.”

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Author:Alan Parsons

“The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.”

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Author:Dev Patel

“I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.”

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Author:Jared Padalecki

“John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.”

Dark Goodman

Author:Todd Phillips

“Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.”

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Author:Edward Ruscha

“A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.”

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Author:James Rollins

“The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.”

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Author:Emanuel Steward

“I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.”

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Author:Fred Seibert

“I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.”

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Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.”

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Author:Alicia Sacramone

“I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.”

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Author:Brittany Snow

“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.”

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Author:Gail Simmons

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.”

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Author:Mark Strong

“The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be aware of the dark side of others that seek to interfere with our evolution. Keep distant and closed to such beings, recognizing that they are part of the universal process too, but not a part that we need to be open to at this time.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

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