Darker Quotes

286 quotes by 249 authors

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin.… — James Carlos Blake
His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers… — Blake Crouch
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. — Carl Jung
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker… — D. H. Lawrence
Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable,… — Beyonce Knowles
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of… — Wilhelm Rontgen
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are… — Claude Bernard
Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on… — John Steinbeck
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but… — Jennifer Capriati
The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean… — Joe Abercrombie
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting. — Stephan Pastis
In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops… — Aravind Adiga
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate. — Laura Mvula
If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. — John M. Ford
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny… — William Kent
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a… — Carl Jung
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side… — Rabindranath Tagore
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure… — Samuel Johnson
I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there… — Amanda Plummer

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