When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

- Alan Moore

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

- Alexander Skarsgard

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

- Andrea Arnold

The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.

- Ariel Sharon

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

- Ann Voskamp

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

- 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.

- Anish Kapoor

As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.

- Alison Gopnik

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

- Alice McDermott

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

- Alan Thicke

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

- Alan Furst

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

- Abbas Kiarostami

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

- Anthony Hopkins

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

- Angelina Jolie

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

- Alicia Keys

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

- Aldous Huxley