Dark Quotes

5416 Dark quotes by 3005 unique authors

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
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
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
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
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. — Winston Churchill
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
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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