Dark Quotes

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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them… — Max Lucado
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. — William Maxwell
Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.… — Paul Klee
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. — Arlo Guthrie
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of… — George Santayana
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it? — Kendrick Lamar
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. — Lydia M. Child
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love. — Pablo Neruda
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe… — Loren Eiseley
emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea... — Anne Sexton
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of… — Winston Churchill
At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen

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