Dark Quotes - page 5

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. (William Butler Yeats)
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp. View quote
Heinrich Heine
'What is good for a bootless bene' With these dark words begins my tale And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail. View quote
William Wordsworth
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Life is one long struggle in the dark. View quote
Lucretius
There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long. View quote
Vitruvius
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. View quote
Brian Greene
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. View quote
William Shakespeare
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. View quote
Charles Simic
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. View quote
Jack Osbourne
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. View quote
Walter Scott
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. View quote
John Milton
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? View quote
Emily Brontë
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. View quote
William McFee
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. View quote
John Betjeman
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper. View quote
Augusten Burroughs