Dark Continent may refer to:
- A 19th century expression previously used to describe Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Dark Continent (album), an album by Wall of Voodoo
- Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, a book on 20th century European history by Mark Mazower
Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or continent:
“I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)