William Shakespeare Dark Quotations

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?...

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V

All dark and comfortless.

Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!