100 Dark Side Quotes

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Famous Dark Side Quotes

There's a dark side to everything. — Prince

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids. — Gillian Flynn

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. — Sue Grafton

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark. — Roger Waters

Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. - Mark Twain

Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. — Mark Twain

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us. — Sheryl Lee

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. — Kahlil Gibran

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole. — Carl Jung

somethings can only be seen in the shadows — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties. — Gary Busey

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides. — Ray Manzarek

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. — David Kelley

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. — Charles Dickens

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. - George R. R. Martin

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. — George R. R. Martin

Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest. — Starhawk

Short Dark Side Quotes

  • You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. — Arlo Guthrie
  • Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior. — Carl Jung
  • And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. — Roger Waters
  • Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu
  • Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu
  • There is strong shadow where there is much light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade — William Ernest Henley
  • Allow the purity of evil to guide you. — The Undertaker
  • If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant. — Jane Kenyon
  • Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. — Sophocles

Top 10 Dark Side Quotes

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do. — ASAP Rocky

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. - Gregory Maguire

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. — Gregory Maguire

Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. — J. Cole

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. — Leonard Louis Levinson

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. — Brennan Manning

Cleaners have a dark side, and a zone you can’t enter. They get what they want, but they pay for it in solitude. Excellence is lonely. — Tim Grover

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour. — Yohji Yamamoto

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it. — Dan B. Allender

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you. — Debbie Ford

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. — Janeane Garofalo

Dark Side Image Quotes

Dark side quote When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.
When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.

My Dark Side Quotes

I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian. — Sacha Baron Cohen

His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog. — Gene Hill

When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person. — Frank Iero

Dark side quote When you can't look on the bright side i will sit with you in the dark.
When you can't look on the bright side i will sit with you in the dark.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious. — Federico Fellini

My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls. — Woody Guthrie

Meditate?” I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. “Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once. — Rachel Caine

Dark side quote Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life. — Jack Nicholson

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing. — Matthew Perry

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive. — William Friedkin

Evil Side Quotes

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. — Fulton J. Sheen

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride. — Robert Johnson

Dark side quote Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which they never show to anybody.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which they never show to anybody.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. — Neil Gaiman

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily. — Kelly Hu

Dark side quote Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. — Robert Jordan

I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. — Evan Sayet

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. — Randy Pausch

Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings. — Lars von Trier

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More Dark Side Quotes

In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side. — John Lahr

You can't see the glory of life if you haven't seen the dark side of life. — Bessel van der Kolk

But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who's living with a spoon up their nose and a bunch of pills dissolving in their stomach sac; or to any person who's considering taking a God-given gift and misusing it; to anyone who decides to go to the dark side of the force and live a life of unbridled hedonism. And to anyone who thinks there's anything glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. — Jordan Belfort

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive. — Rob Brydon

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase. — A. S. Byatt

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. — Carl Jung

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. — George Lucas

Beware the power of the dark side. — Tom Angleberger

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . . — Thomas Keating

His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame. — Waylon Jennings

As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience. — Savielly Tartakower

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin. — Elizabeth Goudge

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for — Yuja Wang

I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that. — Joe Manganiello

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful! — Stuart Duncan

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience. — Orson F. Whitney

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. — Willa Cather

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. — Jean Baudrillard

Personally, I prefer the dark side. — Daniel Radcliffe

You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. 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

[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time. — Lana Del Rey

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. — George Lucas

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