Dark Quotes - page 13

Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. (Oliver Cromwell)
Genius hath electric power Which earth can never tame, Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower, Its flash is still the same. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner. View quote
Denis Diderot
The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness. View quote
Stephen Spender
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And a grief may bid, and evening guest, Bot joy shall come with early light. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society. View quote
William Wordsworth
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail. View quote
Kathleen Raine
The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life. View quote
Ted Haggard
The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light! (Adelaide Anne Procter)
In the dark womb where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her. View quote
John Masefield
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. View quote
Mary Shelley
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right. View quote
Ethan Hawke
I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. [...] They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids. [...] I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it. View quote
Bill Maher
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Listen: The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. View quote
Brené Brown
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it. (William H. Prescott)
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. View quote
Edward Young
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will. View quote
Christian D. Larson
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. View quote
Victor Hugo