Top 505 Dark Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Dark Quotes from famous people such as El-P, James Wolcott, Connie Chung, Emily Bronte, Oliver Cromwell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and

A lot of people thought ‘Funcrusher’ was super dark and hopeless, and I don’t think it was hopeless in any way.
El-P
Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
James Wolcott
I don’t know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.
Connie Chung
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell
I’ve been through some dark times but I’ve experienced joy too. Now that joy can’t be suppressed.
Michelle Shocked
We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.
Robert Crippen
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.
Carrie Brownstein
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern
‘Dark Blue’ is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don’t think that is ever going to change.
Dylan McDermott
North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
Nadia Giosia
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Rebecca West
I have a very dark sense of humor.
Andy Dick
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Richard Whately
My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
Karen McDougal
There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like ‘Shout’ by Tears for Fears. That’s a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.
Steven Wilson
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side… we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
Jeff Bridges
They were heading out to the middle of the bay – the Gulf – that’s another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn’t hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we’d take ’em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
James Stockdale
Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
Fabiola Gianotti
Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.
Juice Wrld
I’m intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
Famke Janssen
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
Janis Karpinski
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
Florence Nightingale
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
Henry Timrod
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
James Allen
I’m just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what’s going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it’s some aspect of myself that’s coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.
Michael Shannon
I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.
Cole Sprouse
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Pam Brown
‘The Dice Man’ is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don’t normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
Luke Rhinehart
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I'

I’ve always been attracted to things that are taboo. I’ve never been afraid to go to that dark place.
Ricky Williams
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don’t think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.
Jason Clarke
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.
Bill Bryson
If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.
Kris Carr
I’m playing dark history. It’s beyond black. I’m dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Sun Ra
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers – in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
Arvo Part
A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green
I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.
Alicia Sacramone
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder
Darkness is important. If you were having fun all the time, you wouldn’t know what dark is.
Denzel Curry
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Steve Allen
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. Byatt
Like all designers, sometimes my mood can be very flashy, but sometimes it can be dark. Or happier. It all depends on my mood.
Gael Monfils
We’ve always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It’s no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
Terri Windling
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson
My darlings, if I can’t write dark, epic music, I can’t live!
Amy Lee
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. Cole
However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.
Agnes Gund
I’ll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I didn’t go see ‘Inside Out’ for Amy Poehler, though she’s terrific. I went to see my dark prince, Lewis Black.
MaryJanice Davidson
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
Bettie Page
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.
Sofia Vergara
Digging down and finding out where your head is at when a fight is about to come, I used to get to a dark place and that’s not really a place I want to go anymore. I got kids, I enjoy my life and I’m having a good time. I don’t feel like I need to go there anymore.
Cub Swanson
Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.
Robert Greene