Quotes about Dark Emotion

Georges Maget

For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of black blood.

Often cited as a Japanese Proverb, however, there is no evidence of its general use. The quote can be traced to Georges Maget, a French Naval doctor in the 1870’s – see the article link in the citation. Magets reference to “black blood” is likely rooted in the French historical slang “sang noir,” which was used to describe non-noble blood.

Sylvia Plath

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Aubrie Sellers

I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Anne Sexton

Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.

Neil Gaiman

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Anish Kapoor

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Gillian Flynn

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Dark Emotion Quotes