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Dark Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in…
- Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in…
- May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my…
- Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
- They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in…
- How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more…
- My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;…
- I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my…
- I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and…
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- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
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- O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon
- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker
- Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
- I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
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- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum