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Most Famous Dark Quotes of All Time!

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Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

Quotes by Lela Loren

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.

Quotes by Lela Rochon

I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

Quotes by Lee Ranaldo

'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels...

Quotes by Lee Bermejo

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'

Quotes by Laurie Holden

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

Quotes by Laurie Metcalf

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

Quotes by Lauren Lee Smith

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer...

Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Quotes by Laura Dern

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

Quotes by Lara Flynn Boyle

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the...

Quotes by Laeta Kalogridis

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Quotes by L. Frank Baum

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

Quotes by Kristin Gore

As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.

Quotes by Kresley Cole

In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!

Quotes by Kresley Cole

I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

Quotes by Kim Jee-woon

My skin is dark and glows. It almost seems blue, and it's supersoft.

Quotes by Khoudia Diop

I wanted to show girls it's not bad to be dark, that different is beautiful.

Quotes by Khoudia Diop

Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud.

Quotes by Khoudia Diop

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes use "dark" to mean something bad?
Not always in the way you'd expect - one quote actually pushes back on that idea, saying, "I hate using the word ‘dark' for things that are negative." It's a nice reminder that the word doesn't always carry a negative meaning.
Is there a quote about a difficult personal period?
Yes - one quote reflects on a rough chapter, saying, "It was a dark time for me," referring to a period that clashed with the speaker's beliefs and personality. For more reflections on tough periods, see our Dark Time collection.
How do these quotes connect darkness and humor?
One quote makes an interesting connection, noting that "some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it" - suggesting comedy can be a way of coping with heavy topics.
Is there a quote describing a challenging creative or intellectual process?
Yes, one quote compares the process of proving something to going "into a dark tunnel," before coming out somewhere new - a nice metaphor for working through uncertainty. For more on that idea, browse our Dark Places collection.
Where can I find more intense or extreme "dark" quotes?
If you're looking for something more extreme, check out our Darkest collection, or for a broader look at the hidden or difficult sides of life, try Dark Side.

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