Darkly Quotes

55 quotes by 49 authors

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… — Hermann Hesse
In Heaven we'll understand why we've suffered on Earth. The Apostle Paul explained, For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face to… — David Berg
You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere. — Frederick Lenz
Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to… — Thomas Aquinas
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able… — Christian Wiman
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.… — Flannery O'Connor
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to… — Cormac McCarthy
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save… — Cormac McCarthy
I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid… — Pablo Neruda
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel… — Jeffrey Eugenides
She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius… — Dennis Lehane
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That… — Barbara Mertz
Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like humid air. "Better… — Cassandra Clare
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens
That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe darkly, "is an… — Richelle Mead
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not… — Margaret Atwood
She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with… — Vladimir Nabokov
He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so… — Doris Lessing

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