Darkness quotes

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

Aaron Eckhart - Harvey Dent

“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

“- 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

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

“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

“In the marsh was a house, abandoned for years. There hides a darkness beyond all fears.”
Jude Wright - Tom

“I am the Devil! Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness! Well, the Princ-ess of Darkness, anyway.”
Liz Hurley - The Devil

“- Kevin Flynn: You are going to stick with me, right?
- Lora: What for? You're the one who never needed help, remember?
- Kevin Flynn: Come on, I'm - I'm scared of the dark. All this technology scares me.”

Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn
Cindy Morgan - Lora

“What is it about the dark? What secret does it hold?”
Liam Neeson - Peyton Westlake

“- Rey: The Jedi were real?
- Han Solo: I used to wonder about that myself. Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light. Crazy thing is... it's true. The Force. The Jedi. All of it. It's all true.”
Daisy Ridley - Rey
Harrison Ford - Han Solo

“At night, when darkness came to her room, she would tell her brother about the day. She would remind him how the sun felt on his skin, and what the air felt like to breathe, or how snow felt on his tongue. And that reminded her that she was still alive.”

Sophie Nélisse - Liesel Meminger

“Wise man says he will choose darkness, for it is easier to destroy the light within himself than to fight the darkness without.”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Martin Bells

“I'm sure he'll be back shortly. He's terrified of the dark. In fact, when he was a boy, he used to wet his combinations, regularly.”

Tracey Ullman - Nell Van Dort

“You're not leaving here. You stay, you satisfy the darkness.”
Monte Markham - Dave McCabe

“John, sooner or later - sooner, I think - you're gonna learn a lesson that's been learned by everyone who's ever gotten close to Richard Nixon. That he's the darkness reaching out for the darkness. And eventually, it's either you or him. Your grave's already been dug, John.”
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt

“- Elliot Richards: I, Elliot Richards, hereafter known as the Damned - the Damned?
- The Devil: How about the Darned, sound better?”

Brendan Fraser - Elliot Richards
Liz Hurley - The Devil