Darkest Quotes

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.