Browse a curated selection of dark quotes where words illuminate the depths of human emotions and the enigmatic allure of darkness.
Darkness, that intriguing and often misunderstood aspect of our existence, has long held a mesmerizing sway over human thought. It is not merely the absence of light but a symbol of depth, mystery, and the contrasting aspects of life.
In this collection of dark quotes, we are reminded that our lives are shaped not only by moments of brightness but also by the shadows. Whether you seek solace, introspection, these quotes offer a rich tapestry of thought, emotion, and contemplation.
Derived from various voices and perspectives, dark quotes encourage you to embark the enigmatic world of shadows. Meaningful and insightful, these quotes invite us to find meaning within the depths of the shadows that often seem daunting.
So, let the voices within these 100 dark quotes guide you shedding light on the complexities, mysteries, and beauty that it holds. Witness how the power of words can illuminate your path, even the darkest corners of our minds and hearts.
Dark quotes about life
Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
Bram Stoker
Experience life in all possible ways –– good–bad, bitter–sweet, dark–light, summer–winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
Osho
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
Dark quotes about death
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran
There’s beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the roses. You can’t escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty …
Cate Tiernan
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath
As shadows fall, death’s curtain draws near, a final sigh, a whispered fear.
Unknown
Think not I dread to see my spirit fly / Through the dark gates of fell mortality / Death has no terrors when the life is true / ‘Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.
Omar Khayyam
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Death’s cloak may be dark, but it unveils the eternal light.
Unknown
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
George Fox
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
Dark quotes about pain
The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.
Silvertris
After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts, and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done.
Ani San
What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.
Rumi
The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure.
Matthew Donnelly
In the shadows of pain, resilience finds its roots.
Unknown
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
Benjamin Disraeli
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Laurence Sterne
Amidst the shadows of pain, we find the strength to rise again.
Unknown
Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don’t you think?
Alice Walker
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
Isabel Allende
Dark quotes about love
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
Leonardo da Vinci
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
George Chakiris
Love is like the wild rose–briar; Friendship like the holly–tree. The holly is dark when the rose–briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light: I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams
By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness.
Pablo Neruda
Where there is love, there is no darkness.
Burundi proverb
Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing – even if it’s just a thought you can think–where you can generate love to cast out the fear.
Marianne Williamson
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
Deep dark quotes
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William Shakespeare
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
Fanny Crosby
I’m a happy–go–lucky manic–depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative–negative. I’m positive–negative.
Tim Burton
When you have nothing left to lose, it’s easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I’m there.
Lori Lesko
You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.
Iyanla Vanzant
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
William Butler Yeats
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
The truth isn’t always a blinding light. Sometimes it’s a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates – and burns – just as surely.
Albert Einstein
Aesthetic dark quotes
The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.
George R. R. Martin
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom
The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
Brené Brown
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
Ibn Taymiyyah
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.
Marianne Williamson
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
J. K. Rowling
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
Funny dark quotes
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
When life gets dark, just add a sprinkle of laughter.
Unknown
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
P. G. Wodehouse
Embrace the dark side; we have cookies, and they’re not burnt!
Unknown
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
Steven Wright
Darkness isn’t so bad; it’s where the stars throw their cosmic parties!
Unknown
Character is what you are in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody
They say the dark is scary, but I’m pretty sure it’s just shy.
Unknown
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
I asked the dark for its secrets, and it replied with a moonless night.
Unknown
Dark quotes for Instagram
When its dark enough you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
Don’t be afraid of the dark. Shine!
Vera Nazarian
Darkness exists to make light truly count.
Ryan O’Neal
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin
By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness!
Tara Brach
No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light!
Norman Vincent Peale
In the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
Hope begins in the dark.
Anne Lamott
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
Murasaki Shikibu
The streets were dark with something more then night.
Raymond Chandler
Short dark quotes
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.
Rod Serling
To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel
Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.
Bono
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
John Milton
Character is what a man is in the dark.
Dwight Moody
The presence of fear and darkness does not mean that the hopeful parts of me cease to exist.
Erin Frye
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank
Quotes about dark
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
Sarah J. Maas
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
Shaun Hick
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Shannon L. Alder
There are those who are afraid of the dark, not just because it’s dark, but because of what’s inside the darkness.
Timothy Long
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.
Kamand Kojouri
There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.
Idowu Koyenikan
Final thoughts
Through this exploration of dark quotes, we are reminded of the profound depth and complexity that shadows cast upon our lives. These quotes offering glimpses of the myriad emotions, experiences, and perspectives that arise from the interplay of darkness and light.
In darkness, we also find of illumination–an illumination of our fears, our desires, and the often–overlooked facets of existence. These dark quotes inviting us to confront our deepest fears and uncover hidden truths.
By incorporating the diverse voices and perspectives found within these dark quotes, we have embarked on a journey of self–discovery. Allow these quotes serve as a reminder that even in the darkest of moments, there is a glimmer of hope and transformation.
From the profound to the humorous, we hope you’ve enjoyed our selection of dark quotes. Feel free to share them with others, as words have the power to connect us and shed light even during hard times.
Thank you for joining us on this voyage through the enigmatic realm of dark quotes. Embrace the darkness, for it is the canvas upon which you paint the masterpiece of your life.