Darkly Quotes

55 quotes by 49 authors

So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many guises, - Many names, but… — George S. Patton
It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes… — Charles Dickens
Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly… — Pearl S. Buck
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate. — Samuel Johnson
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. — Anais Nin
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly… — Alexander Pope
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events… — Arthur W. Pink
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between. — Walter Scott
Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family,… — Bill Buford
I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time. — Alexander McQueen
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her… — Scott Lynch
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real.… — Douglas Sirk
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she… — Spalding Gray
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned… — Carl Jung
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his… — Anais Nin
... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh… — Gregory of Nyssa
Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul. — Robert A. Johnson
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me… — Kris Saknussemm

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