Dark Quotes
5416 Dark quotes by 3005 unique authors
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we…
— Leo Rosten
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Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results -…
— Denis Waitley
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies…
— Freya Stark
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
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People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities…
— Joy Page
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers…
— Anthony Trollope
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As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film…
— Steven A. Cohen
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With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value.…
— Gary Fisher
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Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.
— Unknown Author
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Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.
— Unknown Author
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We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see…
— Martin Luther
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