emotional darkness Quotes

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

I have... a dark look in my eyes, I guess.

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

The name 'Light of Mine' came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

We're trying to say that if you, in love, when you're not true to yourself, the love won't last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

I'm not going to lie: it's tough. There were a couple of games where you're down, and you're in a really dark place, and you don't know if you're ever going to come out of it. You realize, 'Hey, I'm having a bad day,' but you realize there are people out there having worse days.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

The name of the Slough was Despond.