Quotes about dark
dark past deserving-it
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish) John Steinbeck
dark light way
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. John Singer Sargent
darkness betrayed hours
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die. John Piper
dark thinking light
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that. Nick Cave
dark tree choices
He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted. Nancy Farmer
dark goes-on convince
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. Philip Roth
dark men hands
I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me. Philip Guston
dark thinking waiting
So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house. Petra Stunt
dark market
The market is completely in the dark about the short-term outlook. It's completely lost.
dark hair mirrors
It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself. Holly Black
dark years aquarius
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation. Hermann Hesse
dark names world
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
dark men light
Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss; Heaven once a week; The next world's gladness prepossest in this; A day to seek; Eternity in time; the steps by which We climb above all ages: lamps that light Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich And full redemption of the whole week's flight. Henry Vaughan
dark sight bridges
The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
dark air sick
So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.
dark clouds storm
I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.
dark assumption assuming
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
dark fighting force
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. Henrik Ibsen
darkness demand matter
Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched. Henri Nouwen
dark long racism
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture. James Fenton
dark light order
No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you... and you could change the magic. Libba Bray
dark light bovine
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
dark barley realms
We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark...
dark library path
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.
dark my-favorite dark-humor
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.' Leslie Mann
dark support democracy
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction of democracy and which meanwhile can benefit only a minority of the masses who support it. Yet it is this support from the Left of the tendencies toward monopoly which make them so irresistible and the prospects of the future so dark. Friedrich August von Hayek
dark journey light
The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heaven's journey still, and adjourn not. Friedrich Schiller
dark long understanding
And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive. Jon Krakauer
dark artist age
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. John Zorn
dark battle life-is
The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about. Johnny Cash
darkness black rubies
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy. Ludwig Wittgenstein
dark concepts
Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
dark sides argument
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. Lord Chesterfield