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Most Famous Dark Quotes of All Time!

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Hotels are really scary. There are a lot of haunted ones in L.A. that I want to check out. So many people come in and out, and a lot of them can be dark. That dark gets locked in the...

Quotes by Evan Peters

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Quotes by Ernie Pyle

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Quotes by Erica Jong

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

Quotes by Erich Hoeber

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind...

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

Quotes by Enrique Vila-Matas

Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.

Quotes by Emmett Shear

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Quotes by Empedocles

A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On 'The Revenant' sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather....

Quotes by Emmanuel Lubezki

The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture.

Quotes by Emmanuel Lubezki

I love dark chocolate. I love it.

Quotes by Emma Roberts

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

Quotes by Emma Thomas

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

Quotes by Emily Meade

I have... a dark look in my eyes, I guess.

Quotes by Emily Meade

I usually get cast in more dark, dramatic things, and I would love to do something more comedic.

Quotes by Emily Meade

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

Quotes by Emily Rios

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

Quotes by Emanuel Celler

I'm a dark thoughts writer.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.

Quotes by Ellen Muth

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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