Best Dark Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

“Hope was the beast that could never be slain, the light that blazed in every harrowing dark.”

“There was a smile on his lips—the kind that comes with a drop of hope, the first whisper of self-belief after a long time in the dark.”

“I do not write dark books. I write candles. I write fire.”

“Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.”

“It’s the mercy in our making that allows for these kinds of memories to win over the dark ones. Though they might haunt us and serve to protect us from harm, bad memories will always be lessened by those of light. Our survival depends on these rays of built-in grace, the thriving that urges us to hope.”

“You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”

“People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.”

“Men may perish, but the world will neither celebrate nor mourn. It will go on.' His smile thinned. 'Would you like to know how?'”

“The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”

“Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.”

“A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar”

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.”

“Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”

“Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”

“for we all have”

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide”

“HEARTWORK”

“Fate had played a cruel trick and turned him into a monster.”

“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?”

“Through the darkest hours of the night”

“Men get themselves in trouble over the three Bs.  Booze, broads and bucks.  Your competition isn’t booze or broads. Your husband’s lover is bucks.  Your husband has a gambling addiction.”

“He’d wormed his way into Justin’s life like a grub—preying on his weaknesses and his sexual orientation.”

“To think how thrilled she was when she took the job to have to sign the Official Secrets Act. It seemed so deliciously cloak and dagger, and she thought she'd become privy to important national secrets, or at least something interesting.  But it's all piffle, baffling as hell and twice as boring.”

“Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”

“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?”

“Sometimes the king is a woman”

“I don't remember my dreams,' I tell the boy with grey eyes.”

“He didn't want to give the cartel any time to persuade Emiliana into accepting a more enticing offer. He had reservations about her loyalty and feared she might make a deal without Elpidio's consent.”

“I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging”

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.”

“For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.”

“You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.”

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world”

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”

“Is it not possible that those who invented the devil may have studied divinity in Persia, where the creed obtains that powers of light and darkness, Ormuzd and Ahriman, strive perpetually for mastery of the world Surely, otherwise, they would have remembered that if the devil exists, God must have created him, which in itself is blasphemy, for God can create no evil.”

“Light might be absent for a moment, but it is absence that evidences existence.”

“We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.”

“Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.”

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant.”

“All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall. All because of the rabbits. Eric, who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying, thought this was a terrible thing to say; God wasn't like that. I said the one I believed in was.”

“Nothing belongs to itself anymore.”

“If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.”

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”

“The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”

“BLACK AND WHITE”

“The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.”

“The baby bat”

“How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.”