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- Nov 07, 2020
Dark Quotes
On hard seasons, dark humor and difficult truths.
This dark quotes collection ranges from describing genuinely hard personal seasons to arguing that comedy often grows out of the darkest material. Related: our Dark Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Leave It To Beaver' is a fairly famous show in America, but I don't think it travelled. It was one of those typical '50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
While most vegetables are good sources of fiber, greens - especially the dark, leafy variety - are jam-packed with fiber and a ton of micronutrients.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dark bread like rye or pumpernickel is much healthier than the refined white bread favored by many Americans.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather always sang about the light, and for some reason, I don't know why, it even goes back to when I was seven, eight years old, I've always been attracted to the dark.
- Midnight
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future.
- Bubbling
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- Nov 07, 2020