Top 505 Dark Quotes

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
Moon Unit Zappa
My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.
Kathy Bates
I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.
Ang Lee
I’ve never been a huge sweets eater, and I’ve always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
Rachael Ray
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
Gerard Debreu
Still falls the rain – dark as the world of man, black as our loss – blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell
We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.
Jack Black
I’m not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don’t know. I’m much darker. I’ve been like that since I was 3 years old.
Rooney Mara
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.
Dominic Chianese
There’s some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
Don Novello
I’m not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don’t think I’m necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.
Camilla Belle
I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it’s the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.
Vincent Cassel
Exploring the dark side of my characters’ personality is my forte.
Vijay Deverakonda
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
John Hanning Speke
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
Jodie Foster
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is ‘Harold and Maude.’
Leslie Mann
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cotta

Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott
The woman’s perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
Ang Lee
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
I have Nineties music oozing out of my pores. What made rock & roll back then is that it was uncensored. It was raw and dark. Think of ‘Something in the Way,’ by Nirvana – he was telling everyone how he felt.
Machine Gun Kelly
I snack on sauteed peanuts, a whole fruit, lots of cheese – especially goat cheese – with multi-grain crackers and dark chocolate. These are my weaknesses. I make it a point to eat every two hours.
Sridevi
As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I’ve loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It’s both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it’s not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.
Bob Saget
I get people to this day – I won my title 25 years ago – saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
Barry McGuigan
Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
Brooke Burke
As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
Teller
I definitely have a dark sense of humor, and in ways I think that comes from having a lot of childhood trauma – a little bit, not fully.
Patti Harrison
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It’s one or two or three things I’m most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.
Gwyneth Paltrow
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.
Brian Krause
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
Jonathan Frid
I would always have been the geek who’s your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.
Jon Cryer
The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.
Leon Bridges
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don’t believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
Daniel Barenboim
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I’d hide my face in the dark, I wouldn’t want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson
When I was working on the first ‘Dark Souls’ – as far back as ‘Demon’s Souls,’ actually – I didn’t expect the player community to come up with speedrun contests or any of the strange new ways to play the games.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
Marianne Williamson
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Cavett Robert
I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like ‘Irreversible,’ ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ ‘Malena’; it’s so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That’s why I’m an actor.
Monica Bellucci
Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I’d be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.
Dean Ambrose
Harriet Washington, in ‘Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,’ documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.
Greg Grandin
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I’ve been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I’ve got to do something with you.
Alan Vega
There are places you go, and they say, ‘Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.’ And you just want to… you just want to… I dunno, um… thump them.
Paul Newman
Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that’s because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It’s another world. An escape.
AJ Tracey
‘Avengers’ was a great comic-book movie. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is a great epic.
Neal Adams
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
John Bradshaw
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior an

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
Christopher Meloni
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
Scott Derrickson
I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
Danny McBride
Every man’s closet should be dark pair of blue jeans, a black jean, and a mid wash jean.
Tan France
Even the dark places are places. You’re still somewhere.
K. Flay
It’s great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don’t get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
Mark Strong
The next film I’m making is a horror film, and I’m making it with A24. It’s a dark break-up movie that becomes a horror film, set in Sweden. That’s all I can really say now. It’s called ‘Midsommar.’ Everybody’s been spelling it wrong. It’s ‘midsummer’ in Swedish.
Ari Aster
I’m a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don’t think I’d ever change back unless it was for a film.
Eva Green
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
Jim DeMint
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
Mo Yan