Dark Quotes

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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably… — Max Beerbohm
Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune. — Elwyn Brooks White
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Flowers grow out of dark moments. — Corita Kent
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall… — Seneca the Younger
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. — H. L. Mencken
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of… — Muriel Spark
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark… — Paul Hawken
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the… — Jill Shalvis
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all… — John McCain
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,… — Dalai Lama
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have… — Rajneesh
True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it… — Guy Finley
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. — Shirley MacLaine
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why… — Wallace Stevens
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. — Mark Van Doren

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