Success and suffering will either darken your heart or…

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

— Anonymous

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without…

— Edward Judson

“Embrace pain, suffer like you never did before because in the end you will be stronger you will be ground down broken but starving,…

— Triston W Lee

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I…

— Mark Doty

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

— Marissa Meyer

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

— Anonymous

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And…

— Rupert Brooke

When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell…

— Edwin Morgan

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights…

— Edwin Way Teale

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there…

— Richard Brautigan

Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but…

— Rosemary Verey

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,…

— Mark Strand

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald