Dark Things Quotes

• I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Pregnancy, I Hate You

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XVII”

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• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're good at something, never do it for free.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Movie, Money, Dark

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Panic, Plans

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

  Robin Wasserman

  Dark, Dark Places

  Robin Wasserman (2013). “The Waking Dark”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Understanding, Protection

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• The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.

  Juliet Marillier

  Powerful, Dark, Embrace

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

  David Wong

  Dark, Night, House

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.18, Titan Books

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• I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Dark, Terrified

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Memories, Eye

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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• People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.

  Andrew Solomon

  Self Esteem, Believe, Dark

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Jobs, Dark, Needs

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• I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness of [Hernando] Cortez's conquest of Mexico. It's at once very brutal and at times very plodding. It tells what they did everyday, so days can go by and nothing happens. Then all of the sudden they are torturing and doing all these dark things.

  Laila Lalami

  Dark, People, Everyday

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

  James Mercer

  Powerful, Love You, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dark, Black

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• Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

  Tim Tharp

  Life, Time, Drinking

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• What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

  Danny DeVito

  Dark, Unique, Funny Things

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• Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Fall, Sunshine, Dark

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• With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Fun, Dark

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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• People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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• Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Dark, Thinking

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• What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Dark, Trying

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about Muslims.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dark, Said

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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