Dark Quote by Lisa Jewell

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

— Emily Dickinson

“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman, a landscape,…

— Peter Heller

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has…

— Wilkie Collins

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

— Alessandro Baricco

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her…

— Anna Julia Cooper

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my…

— Ang Lee

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If…

— Elizabeth Goudge

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a…

— Ace Antonio Hall

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This…

— Honore de Balzac

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but…

— Vladimir Nabokov