This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

“I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.”

— J.D. Stroube

The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.

— Mary Zimmerman

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

All comedy comes from a dark place.

— Katt Williams

It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'

— Laurie Holden

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...…

— Emil Ferris

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it…

— Anne Lamott

“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But…

— Nenia Campbell

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…

— Wendell Berry

Let death bless me with you.

— Anonymous

“what do you call/that space between the dark geographies of sex?”

— Natasha Trethaway

Twinking tears in a sea of black. Soft light in a world of darkness. Tiny wishes in a place of dreams. Do you see…

— Nicole Gentile

Even in the dark your shadow is like a guide to me! you are my rising sun that brings forth hope just as it…

— Nkemjika Linus