Dark Quotes - Page 32

• Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Doors, Shining

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Grief, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  A. S. Byatt

  Kissing, Night, Secret Places

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• Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of "Let's whack Bobby in the dark!" - Bobby Pendragon, RoZ

  D. J. MacHale

  Sleep, Night, Games

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• My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

  Dave Eggers

  Leaving, Church, Ceilings

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.2, Vintage

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• De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in. Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.

  James Patterson

  Doctors, Special, Mouths

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• War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira

  Tite Kubo

  War, People, Sorrow

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• There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Thinking, Safety

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Fall, Angel

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• The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Past, Mirrors, Two

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.

  Simon R. Green

  Dream, Sleep, Rocks

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• I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

  Libba Bray

  Sorry, Hard Times, Light

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.299, Delacorte Press

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Castles, Towns

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?

  Janet Fitch

  Eye, Boys, Past

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• I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

  Amy Hempel

  Rivers, Lightning, Bugs

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hands, Bridges, Coats

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light! L: Yes, that would be dark.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Light, Would Be, World

  "Death Note". Manga series by Tsugumi Ohba, August 4, 2003 – May 15, 2006.

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• She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Heart, Cities, Embers

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

  Sylvia Plath

  New York, Heart, Night

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.59, Hamilton Books

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• And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

  Mark Haddon

  Life, Moon, Night

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• No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Pain, May

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jan 11, 2012

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Rivers, Sea

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

  Jodi Picoult

  Light, I Can, My Sister's Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

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• God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Party, Grief

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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