Quotes tagged ‘Darkness’

“In the darkness, there are no rules. So, tonight Gotham, do what you want. Kill who you want. And when morning comes, you too shall be reborn.”

— Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt, Jerome Valeska, Cameron Monaghan, imdb.com

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

— Ken Woodruff, Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin, Robin Lord Taylor, imdb.com

“Don’t be ridiculous. Martha Stewart isn’t a demon. She’s a witch. Nobody could do that much decoupage without calling on the powers of darkness.”

— Marti Noxon, Anya Jenkins, Emma Caulfield, imdb.com

“Once upon a time, there was a little boy. He was born in a field and raised in the woods. And he had nothing. In the winter the boy would freeze and in the summer he would boil. He knew the name of every stinging insect. At night he would look at the lights in the houses, and he would want. Why was…”

— Noah Hawley, Don Chumph, Glenn Howerton, imdb.com

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

— Aristotle Onassis, amazon.com

“The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“During this period of my life I was also plagued with bouts of severe depression. When this feeling came over me, I would hide under my bed for hours. I would also lock myself in a closet and sit in total darkness from morning until afternoon. I had a craving for the darkness and I felt an urge to f…”

— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org

“But Nakata wasn't afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos was an old friend, a part of him already. Nakata understood this well.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“I know you're all feeling the darkness here today. But there's no reason to give in. No matter what you've heard, this process will not take years. In my heart, I know we cannot be defeated, because there is an answer that will open the door. There is a way around this system. This is a test of our…”

— Jason Grote, Matthew Weiner, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, imdb.com

“We’ve created a society that protects itself from the darkness and the death and destruction that’s all around us. There’s probably a stack of dead bodies in a morgue within six blocks from here, but it’s so gross that we keep that compartmentalized.”

— Chris Pratt, telegraph.co.uk

“There is no easy way out of the Badlands. No shortcuts, no deals. I know that now. Maybe Sunny and I don’t deserve redemption. Maybe my darkness will never be tamed. There’s one thing I know for sure. The journey has just begun.”

— Michael R. Perry, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, M.K., Aramis Knight, imdb.com

“The wars were so long ago, nobody even remembers. Darkness and fear ruled until the time of the barons, seven men and women who forged order out of chaos. People flocked to them for protection. That protection became servitude. They banished guns and trained armies of lethal fighters they called Cli…”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, M.K., Aramis Knight, imdb.com

“What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I don't have to fall asleep after sex. I want to fall asleep after sex. I welcome the darkness.”

— Ron Leavitt, Arthur Silver, Al Bundy, Ed O'Neill, imdb.com

“Don't be sorry your darkness is gone. I'll carry it for you. Always. I'll keep it with mine.”

— Scott Buck, Tim Schlattmann, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“I just know there's something dark in me, and I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there—always. This Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel...alive, half-sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got.”

— Melissa Rosenberg, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“I've lived in darkness a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.”

— Melissa Rosenberg, Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com