Dark Quotes
5416 Dark quotes by 3005 unique authors
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the…
— Celia Thaxter
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So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths.
— Robert Southey
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There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the…
— Noam Chomsky
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
— Plato
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Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.
— Michael Dolan
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...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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This is about doing something difficult and not stopping when it becomes not just difficult, but cold and difficult...or cold and wet and difficult...or cold…
— Suzy Favor Hamilton
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The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her…
— Laozi
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The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to…
— Rick Moody
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We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark…
— Walter Bagehot
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Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home.…
— Dorothy Draper
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Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life,…
— Adam Riess
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It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot…
— Adam Riess
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Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.…
— Adam Riess
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My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
— Beetlejuice
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We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged....
— Andrei Sakharov
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Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under…
— Tim Cahill
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You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and…
— Unknown Author
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No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
— Ogden Nash
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Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that you have died,…
— Laura Ramirez
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