Best Dark Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Men may perish, but the world will neither celebrate nor mourn. It will go on.' His smile thinned. 'Would you like to know how?'”

“The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”

“Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.”

“A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar”

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.”

“Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”

“Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”

“... and I realise the only way to tell the others”

“Dark is the world’s night without you my love,”

“I see a bright”

“for we all have”

“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. 
 You still feel warmth.
Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you.”

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide”

“HEARTWORK”

“Fate had played a cruel trick and turned him into a monster.”

“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?”

“Through the darkest hours of the night”

“Men get themselves in trouble over the three Bs.  Booze, broads and bucks.  Your competition isn’t booze or broads. Your husband’s lover is bucks.  Your husband has a gambling addiction.”

“Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.”

“I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” Ryan said. “I don’t know who or what I am anymore. How can I help and heal people when I am drinking their blood!”

“Sometimes, the only way to make your dreams come true is to shatter them.”

“He’d wormed his way into Justin’s life like a grub—preying on his weaknesses and his sexual orientation.”

“To think how thrilled she was when she took the job to have to sign the Official Secrets Act. It seemed so deliciously cloak and dagger, and she thought she'd become privy to important national secrets, or at least something interesting.  But it's all piffle, baffling as hell and twice as boring.”

“Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”

“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?”

“Sometimes the king is a woman”

“I don't remember my dreams,' I tell the boy with grey eyes.”

“He didn't want to give the cartel any time to persuade Emiliana into accepting a more enticing offer. He had reservations about her loyalty and feared she might make a deal without Elpidio's consent.”

“I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging”