Top 1200 Dark Places Quotes & Sayings

There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and places where outrage is extended and places where it's not. It's this constantly shifting barrel of eels.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.

Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

'Doctor Who' is pretty dark, I think. Generally it's dark; it's always been dark.

I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where you'd have to be a fool to live, .. So, there will be places where people can get their hair done well and places where they can't.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

I wanted people to know that I'm human, and I'm only successful because I've learned the hard way. I've been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

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

Why must holy places be dark places?

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.

The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

I like dark places.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.