Dark Night Quotes

96 Dark Night quotes by 84 unique authors

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark… — Haniel Long
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the… — James Wolcott
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. — Charles Simic
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical sufferingâ€”this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those… — Charles Dickens
Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends… — Margaret J. Wheatley
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one canâ€™t see--thatâ€™s my idea of happiness. — Henry James
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… — Philip Yancey
I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And thatâ€™s hardly a surprise really, because for… — Paulo Coelho
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. — N. Scott Momaday
Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you donâ€™t know where to go or what to do, and… — Joel Osteen
On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so… — Jodi Picoult
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard… — Tupac Shakur
If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the… — Pablo Neruda
Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a… — P.G. Wodehouse
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my… — W G Sebald
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to… — Rudyard Kipling
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! — Friedrich Nietzsche
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched. — Juliet Marillier
There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you… — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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