Top 144 Darker Quotes

‘Dystopian,’ by definition, promises a darker story.

I’ve always had trouble finding makeup in darker shades.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that’s part of being a human being if you’re honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don’t let control you.

It’s interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It’s like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it’s nice to be able to explore the darker side.

Pretty much every comic that you see live is going to be slighter ruder, slightly darker and slightly more scary. But there are restrictions when you’re on the telly. I’m not trying to rude it up for live. I just have to restrict myself on the telly.

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the ‘Books of Blood’.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It’s how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it – by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I’m sure I’d never do otherwise.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.

I’d never record digitally. It’s not because its’ a horrible way to record, it’s just not the best way to record my music, because my music is rawer, darker and a little more nostalgic.

A lot of my music is kind of contemplative, and somehow that always tends to tilt on the darker side. My inner conversation is apparently quite dark.

When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors – you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I’m fighting towards the light.

The name ‘Light of Mine’ came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual.

I’ve chopped off a good chunk of my hair and gone darker and I look a bit older.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

I do like to play the darker characters; I don’t really know why.

I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

At 36, I think I should be more mature and handle characters with darker shades.

I tend to be attracted to material that has a tough edge to it – darker material.

I’ve always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It’s just always something I’ve gravitated to naturally.

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn’t it?

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

I dont know why, but I often find myself in darker colours.

When I’m writing, I’m trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I’m actually writing, I’m trying to get into a place where I’m tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what’s going on.

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they’ve taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make ‘Humpday’ a comedy.

The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that’s important for me and the kind of films I make.

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let’s start with ‘Once on This Island’: peasant girl. Let’s go to ‘The Color Purple’: young girl, beaten. Let’s go to ‘Ragtime’: Her baby’s taken.

Sylvia Plath wasn’t scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

As a girl, I lived in jeans, and my love-affair with them continues. Since I turned 50, jeans have become something of a uniform, whether it’s a slouchy boyfriend fit for daytime or a leaner, fitted jean in a darker denim for evening.

When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don’t, it’s not, so everything is darker.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

The United States did not earn its reputation as leader of the free world by standing back and allowing darker forces to prevail.

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?

I’ve been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he’s revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There’s a brutality about him.

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don’t get to do in ‘Primeval’ at all.

I tend to be attracted to darker scents. I’m not a floral girl. But I do like this old fragrance I used to wear called Versace Red Jeans. I have an eBay alert that tells me when it comes back! I think it’s more of a nostalgic association that I have with it because a boyfriend had bought it for me when I was, like, 16.

I’m not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds – I’m not saying that for a second – but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn’t be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill – Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism – a much darker view, I think, of the world.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they’d otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Predominantly I’ve worked with Blumhouse, and they’ve been really great to me. We are extremely grateful for employment. But maybe my dark soul attracts these darker, horrifying stories. But I don’t particularly close myself off to any employment – any stories, I should say.

Depending on your figure, you may use clothes and colours to highlight your assets or otherwise. Darker shades always make you look slimmer while bright colours or prints can highlight your figure. Using colours to enhance your look is the easiest and smartest way to play with your figure.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

In the past, the movies I’ve made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

I started writing ‘Southern Baptist Sissies’ right after I had written the screenplay for ‘Sordid Lives’, so that’s when I started on a darker path in telling the truth about my journey in the church, but there was still a lot of funny.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Characters, like people, don’t need to be right – only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending on our state of security.

It was just like Howlin’ Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion – very powerful emotions. That’s what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and – people identify with that.

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