Darkness quotes

“We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins.”
Michael Fassbender - Callum Lynch

“Character is what you are in the dark.”
John Lithgow - Lord John Whorfin

“The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.”

Aaron Eckhart - Harvey Dent

“We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves.”

Donald Pleasence - Loomis

“That was the night that I died, and someone else was saved. Someone who was afraid of water, but learned to swim. Someone who knew there would be one moment where he wouldn't be watching. Someone who knew that the darkness of the broken lights would show the way.”
Julia Roberts - Laura Burney

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
Rick Gonzalez - Timo Cruz

“I’ve lived in darkness for a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.”
Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan

“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.”
Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan

“Don’t underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it.”
Joseph Morgan - Klaus Mikaelson

“There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

Geoff Pierson - Max Ryan

“Love is brightest in the dark.”
Mae Whitman - Katara

“The true mind can weather all lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. From beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.”
Kevin Michael Richardson - Lion Turtle

“In the darkness, hope is something you give yourself.”
Dante Basco - Prince Zuko

“We should talk about a civil case, Martha. We got to finish this. You know, I’ve come back from death before. You know, dark, cold. Really dark, really cold. And now she’s in the dark and the cold, and I can’t do anything about it, you know. My hands are sort of tied here.”
Shia LaBeouf - Sean

“- Jonathan: What scares the human race more than any other single thing?
- Fred: The dark!
- Jonathan: Of course. And why? Because the dark has a life of its own. In the dark, all sorts of things come alive.”
Kirk Douglas - Jonathan
Barry Sullivan - Fred Amiel

“It's the darkness that's got you down. Nobody feels really safe in the dark.”
John Dall - Brandon

“The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.”
Michael Eklund

“- Marcus Aurelius: When I was a child, Timonides, I had a secret fear that night would come and would never end. That we would live out our lives in total darkness. It was a small fear, then.
- Timonides: Yet, my lord Caesar, the sun always rises - and will again.
- Marcus Aurelius: So you say.”
Alec Guinness - Marcus Aurelius
James Mason - Timonides

“You said my faith would light my way, yet all I see before me is a sea of darkness. Why, your highness, has God forsaken me?”
Georges Corraface - Christopher Columbus

“I like it better in the dark. The night is far too short as it is.”
Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus: Clouseau?
- Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau: Yes?
- Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus: Are you wounded?
- Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau: No. Fortunately I was saved by the darkness.
- Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus: So what we need is more light.”
Peter Sellers - Clouseau
Herbert Lom - Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”

“- Beowulf: How many monsters must I slay? Grendel's mother, father, Grende's uncle? Must I hack down a whole family tree of demons?
- Hrothgar: She is the last of them. With her gone, demonkind will slip back into the darkness from whence it came.
- Wiglaf: And where it belongs.”
Ray Winstone - Beowulf
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hrothgar
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf

“Sun, why are you shining at this world? I am wanting to catch you in my hands, to squeeze you until you can not shine no more. That way, everything is always dark and nobody's ever having to see all the terrible things that are happening here.”
Abraham Attah - Agu