“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!” MenWayWantUseHomeBeautifulChurchDarkWalksRaceDarknessFiveMinutesPaintFlatsRomeFive Minutes Author:Taiye Selasi
“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.” PeopleKnowsWayKindPlayBigsLightHappensDarkInterestingRolesHugeWork Out Author:Brittany Snow
“I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.” WayJoyDarkListeningTasteCuresDivisionDrearyJoy Division Author:Danielle Trussoni
“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.” IfsWayGivingPersonsEndsLife IsSidesHoursDarkLevelsAngryExhaustedLowestDark SideBreaking Things Author:Jeremy Piven
“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.” WayWritingMayLongSaidBookIdeasMomentsStoriesFeelingsBeliefVoiceDarkMy OwnSilenceWrittenWorstListeningOptimismSteadySpeculationLong WayFear Of FailureSpookyAnaloguePositive Feelings Book:Nightmares & Dreamscapes Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes
“I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.” PeopleWayWritingDifferentKidsChoicesCausesTermDarkViolentReleasePensKnivesFinding Strength Author:Andy Biersack
“And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.” MenWayLightDarkGhostRemarksFright Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.” WayHandsDarkDestinyCuttingImagineMysteryDutyTrackSolveComplainingImagine ThatRoyalOur DestinyRiddleIntricateRespectabilityBewilderedDevouringHigh RoadSphinx Book:The Secret Doctrine Source: The Secret Doctrine