Dark Quotes

I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.

Andrew Hozier-Byrne
- Good
- Dark
Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Life
- Death
- Energy

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Joanne Rowling
- Light
- Dark
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Fernando Pessoa
- Life
- Dark
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

Thomas Harris
- Together
- Scene
- Wrestling
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

Chris Crutcher
- Great
- Value
- Dark
And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.

Cormac McCarthy
- She
- House
- Door
Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn't blame them, but most of me was hurt.

Darryl Pinckney
- Time
- Stop
- Hurt