The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was -… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea,… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
In this time, Of Darkness, I smile, The best I can, Radiate my beautiful light, As brightly as possible, For you, To… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants… — Nathalie Emmanuel Copy Share Image
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Pfft, aren’t you optimistic,” my mouth twists into an ugly grimace as I clench my fists. My throat dries from the rushed… — Jocelyn White Copy Share Image
“Even though we have all had experiences of feeling distant from God, the Dark Night of the Senses is a particular experience… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Eril-Fane let out a slow breath. “Were you afraid of the dark as a child?” A chill snaked up Lazlo’s spine. He… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“Deception can be seen as dark when it is carried out with either a negative or indifferent intention toward the person being… — Michael Pace Copy Share Image
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I am without her, the sun doesn't shine as brightly. When I am without her, the clouds are dark and foreboding.… — Fad Ibra Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Sachi scowled. ‘I saw your tattoos, I read the book, I know all about this Order of Dark and Light thingy—so what… — Ashlee Nicole Bye Copy Share Image
