Dark Quote by Bret Harte

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

— Michael Franks

“Chwen Hih (Hu dai shi), known as Chwen the Great. He is said to have been accustomed to wear a Confucianist hat, a Buddhist…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“There was an old Taoist who lived in a village in ancient China, named Master Hu. Hu loved God and God loved Hu, and…

— David James Duncan

My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

— Emily Bronte

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said.…

— Benjamin Hoff

“Western scholars, contemptible in their pretentious and shallow scholarship, have translated Tao as Way. How foolish! Tao is Spirit, the Spirit that permeates all…

— Pearl S. Buck

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And…

— John Milton

“While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted…

— Erik Pevernagie

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features

— Countee Cullen

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your…

— William Shakespeare

“They found security in letting go rather than in holding on and, in so doing, developed an attitude toward life that might be called…

— Alan Wilson Watts