Top 33 Dark Place Quotes

I only write when I’m in a dark place. I hit ‘record’ and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

The South is just a dark place, man.

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That’s not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don’t know what you need to know, so you go get the information.

The staging for ‘Monsters’ is all about me getting free. In the beginning I’m like tied, in a dark place… until I am scared no more, and I’m taking the lead of my life, I’m being the queen of my life, I’m ruling the world! In the end I’m taking a risk, but I’m taking the leap of faith.

Everyone goes down a road that they’re not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top – try to go to the top.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

I got to a really dark place when it came to wanting to be tanned, really disliking my natural skin tone. I was listening to the wrong people and all sorts of people were passing judgement on my appearance.

It’s the opposite journey from what I’ve usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

Comedy doesn’t always have to come from a dark place.

When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist – it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.

Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.

I’m certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

I don’t really know what ‘a dark place’ means. I have windows in my house, and I’m generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

Prague is a dark place.

If you’re in a dark place, you’re there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

Don’t ripen picked tomatoes in the sun. Put underripe tomatoes and stone fruits in a paper bag in cool, dark place, and magic happens. And never, ever store them in the fridge: they turn mushy and flavorless.

I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can’t change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.

Sometimes you’re trying your best and you still can’t find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don’t go to that dark place.

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

In stand-up, there’s that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it’s not a rule.

I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

I’ve always been attracted to things that are taboo. I’ve never been afraid to go to that dark place.

All I would say is that when I’ve been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They’ve taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it’s certainly worth doing.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

I’m not going to lie: it’s tough. There were a couple of games where you’re down, and you’re in a really dark place, and you don’t know if you’re ever going to come out of it. You realize, ‘Hey, I’m having a bad day,’ but you realize there are people out there having worse days.

After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you’ve got to turn out the lights from time to time.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call ‘the dark side,’ and greed is one of them. If you don’t put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.