Dark Quotes

Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

~ Dean Koontz

Don't worry about it, only worry about how people like her breed.

~ Gasmaskman

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

~ Dean Koontz

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

~ Steve Aylett

These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.

~ Sarah Dessen

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

~ Gasmaskman

Don't think that your first love has to be your only love.

~ Yukiru Sugisaki

Because I'm a monster, like my father before me and his father before him, and so on. There is no help for me.

~ Courtney Cole

Golden Arches' are the gateway to the afterlife.

~ Gasmaskman

I find no peace, and all my war is done,I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;I fly above the wind yet can I not arise;And naught I have and all the world I seize on.That looseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison,And holdeth me not, yet can I scape nowise;Nor letteth me live nor die at my devise,And yet of death it giveth none occasion.Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain;I desire to perish, and yet I ask health;I love another, and thus I hate myself;I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain.Likewise displeaseth me both death and lifeAnd my delight is causer of this strife.

~ Thomas Wyatt

Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

~ Shannon Celebi

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me jim nightshade...don't talk death. Someone might hear...

~ Ray Bradbury

He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. (Hunger)

~ Charles Beaumont

I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.

~ J.a. Redmerski

But you know, as I do, that the storm will passAnd that the implacable sun doesn't simply stopWhen obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,Which is why I know I'll return to your house-On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.

~ Mauricio Rosencof

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I know you love how I make it all go away: all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain.For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons. For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy;and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me.

~ Say Anything

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?

~ Stephen Crane

Hope is the privilege of the weak.

~ Gasmaskman

Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself. (The Moon Slave)

~ Barry Pain

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality

~ Thrity Umrigar

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

~ David Sedaris

The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.

~ Markus Zusak

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

~ Tom Stoppard

Low ceiling, stone walls, a dirt floor stamped with paw prints. I never go in without announcing myself. 'Hyaa!' I yell. 'Hyaa. Hyaa!' It's the sound my father makes when entering his toolshed, the cry of cowboys as they round up dogies, and it suggests a certain degree of authority. Snakes, bats, weasels --it's time to head up and move on out.

~ David Sedaris

It is important to correct bad behavior one toe at a time.

~ Gasmaskman

There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive.

~ Bryan Hall

Life is a beautiful thing. Plant it in the ground, and it blooms into opportunity, capice?

~ Gasmaskman

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~ Tracey Bond

Time For Tea.

~ Tillie Cole

His darkness bled into me, inch by torturous inch, consuming me from the inside out. It made me feel powerful.It made me feel free.It made the next words that flew from my mouth a plea that he never stopped. He was dark and twisted, but maybe I was too.

~ A. Zavarelli

Throughout the years I learned the good times must come to an end, all the bad times will get worse, and most recently I learned I have PTSD. Ileft a part of myself in that river, in that battlefield, in every tragedy. A couple thousand years of this and there is not much left. I never escaped that river. I am drowning in a sea of tragedy.A woman was standing in front of me. She smiled. “The psychiatrist is ready to see you.

~ John Kennebrew

I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.

~ Pepper Winters

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

Where does it hurt? She lifted her fingers to her cheekbone. Here.He moved slightly to place a soft, gentle kiss against the bruise.And here, she said, touching her forehead.He kissed her again.And here … She put her fingers to her mouth.

~ Marissa Farrar

Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.

~ Simon Sebag Montefiore

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

~ Sarah Dessen

Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer, we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind, Who is speaking, asked the doctor, A blind man, replied a voice, just a blind man, for that is all we have here.

~ José Saramago

People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get to what they truly feel. That's what good literature is all about-- what Austen did better than anyone.

~ M.c. Frank

And then it was done. He was there, but he wasn’t. His consciousness, his self-awareness, the part of him that translated to a snarky voice in his head, all still there. All there but so far away. Not . . . not at the front anymore.

~ Lisa Henry