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:
“Before the leaves can mount again
To fill the trees with another shade,
They must go down past things coming up.
They must go down into the dark decayed.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)