Dark Quotes - page 7

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic. (Karl Philipp Moritz)
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. View quote
Parker Stevenson
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! View quote
Vivian Campbell
Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. View quote
William Petersen
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. View quote
Edmund Waller
It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range. View quote
John Updike
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe. View quote
Charlie Huston
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost. View quote
Dante Alighieri
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools. View quote
Claude McKay
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. (Indira Gandhi)
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. View quote
Theodore Roethke
If the angels are unkind or the season is dark, Or if in the end Love just falls apart. Well then here's to our destruction. Baby let me be your soul driver. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
By god, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage? View quote
Stella Gibbons
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions. View quote
Maimonides
On stage, I am in the dark. View quote
Maria Callas
We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn't the fact that they were primitive - the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed. View quote
Paul Krugman
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. View quote
George Eliot
He liked to observe emotions they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. View quote
Ayn Rand
When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous. (Naomi Watts)
I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. View quote
Naomi Watts
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here. View quote
Sylvia Plath
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man. View quote
Francis Parkman
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. View quote
Ralph Steadman