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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• 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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• 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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• I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fear, Sleep, Dark

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

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• I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Dark, Fire

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• The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

  Stephen King

  Dark, Names, Shining

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

  John Steinbeck

  Fear, Believe, Dark

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

  Nick Nolte

  Running, Mean, Dark

  "Nick Nolte And James Coburn" by Andrew Boorstyn and Thelma Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Kids, Dark

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• 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

  Dark, Thinking, Work Out

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Memories, Dark

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Betrayal, Eye

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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• I love you as one loves certain dark things.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Heart, Dark

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• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  Sammy Hagar

  Dark, Negative, Video

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• I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.

  Tim Burton

  Lonely, Real, Moving

  "Tim Burton: 'The love and life and death stuff was stewing from the start'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

  Josh Radnor

  Responsibility, Dark, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Sleep, Dark

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.533, Penguin UK

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• I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Sleep, Dark

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

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• Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Kings

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Determination, Loneliness, Dark

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.211, Head of Zeus

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• Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

  Terry Brooks

  Princess, Cat, Dark

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