I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the…

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

— Erin Morgenstern

“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and…

— Markus Zusak

“What fool can't appreciate dark things wrapped in pretty packages?”

— Stevie J. Cole

“Write about a terrible experience until you find value in having gone through it. Then you will appreciate every dark hour.”

— Jan Marquart

“To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view,…

— Neville

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

— Ambrose Bierce

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American…

— Pat Paulsen

“There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people,…

— Enza Vita

“the restless world of unenlightened men is like a burning house”

— Ariake (Confessions of Lady Nijo

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

— Frederick Lenz

“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.”

— Enza Vita

“The Enlightened One said: I am not at variance with the unenlightened mind, the unenlightened mind is at variance with me. What it accepts,…

— Ashva·ghosha

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

— Mary Zimmerman

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

— J.D. Stroube

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