84 Movie Quotes about Darkness (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about darkness, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What? Doesn't he know he could get lost in the dark? -Dark? Aah!

Michael Gough as Gopher; Ken Sansom as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it.

Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled

3 Is the dark side stronger? -No, no. No. Quicker, easier, more seductive.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker; Frank Oz as Yoda; Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

4 Why is it so dark? -In the beginning, it is always dark.

Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress; Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

5 May it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out.

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

6 The world of Men will fall. And all will come to darkness and my city to ruin.

Sean Bean as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

7 There are darknesses in life, my child, and there are lights. You are one of the lights, the light of all light.

Anthony Hopkins as Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

8 There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how my love could release us all from the powers of darkness.

Winona Ryder as Mina Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

9 Time you came face to face with fear. Time to know the terrors of the dark and look on death.

Maggie Smith as Thetis in Clash of the Titans (1981)

10 There will be no more bonfires. No more nightmares. Light has conquered darkness. You're free.

Harry Hamlin as Perseus in Clash of the Titans (1981)