The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
When fail to focus on the light of positivity, the darkness of negativity would start to feel like an unchangeable reality in your life.
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.
The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.
I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'
