Darker Quotes

286 Darker quotes by 249 unique authors

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give… — Michael Cunningham
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. — John Steinbeck
Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine… — Denis Johnson
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami
Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,… — Margaret Atwood
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you… — C.S. Lewis
Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out… — Donita K. Paul
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… — James Joyce
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl… — Vladimir Nabokov
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the… — Charles Bukowski
my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out — Mikhail Lermontov
â€¦They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another.… — Richard Matheson
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but… — Haruki Murakami
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat… — Langston Hughes
All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark… — Arthur Rimbaud
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts... — Peter S. Beagle
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a… — Thomas Nagel

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