Best Darker Side Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be ready to accept the fact that leadership , at times, can bring out the worst in us. And understanding, as well as coming to grips with the darker side of your personality, is key to dealing with real-life situations.”

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Author:Donald T. Phillips

“There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love”

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Author:Michael Xavier

“I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“Guys, we spend our whole lives trying to get pussy, so when pussy comes to us, it's like, "Whoa, this is amazing!" At 27, I thought nothing could be better than that, but at 35, I've come to understand the darker side of it.”

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Author:Tucker Max

“I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.”

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Author:David Starkey

“I always wanted to do something that revolves around the darker side of sex, the pressure of it.”

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Author:Timo Tjahjanto

“Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.”

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Author:Claudine Andre

“The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?”

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Author:Arthur Tress

“I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.”

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Author:Rozz Williams

“I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.”

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Author:Ann Patchett

“The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos.”

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Author:Tara Leigh Cobble

“I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.”

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Author:Sarah Barthel

“I really enjoy the darker side of things. It's the type of work that I like to watch. I know some actors feel fearful of how they'll be viewed. But invariably, I find dark material can be very, very rewarding to inhabit and investigate.”

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Author:Tobias Menzies

“Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak

“I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.”

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Author:Selma Blair

“Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.”

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Author:Tinie Tempah

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.”

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Author:Randy Quaid

“I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.”

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Author:Noomi Rapace

“I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.”

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Author:Melissa Joan Hart

“Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.”

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Author:Carter Burwell

“Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.”

Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

“Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.”

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Author:Charles Hart

“I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.”

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Author:Neko Case

“There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate”

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Author:Sandra Boynton

“I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.”

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Author:Garth Brooks

“Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.”

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Author:Dave Gahan

“Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.”

“Poetry is the dark side of the moon.”

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Author:Charles Wright

“To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.”

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Author:Kevin Conroy

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