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Quotes About Dark

The Blue Man smiled. "Why not wipe out all life in the great dark beyond? All other life, that is. All the competition. They did not overlook or forget about the Earth! They cleared the fields for her. Then they traveled backward in time to restart the universe with Man on top, right at the initial condition set. Why not?
~ John C. Wright
the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access to the dark night of the soul.
~ John Cage
But some gifts are worse than curses, and the dark side of the gift is that they know. The lost, the stragglers, those who should not have been taken but were, the innocents, the struggling, tormented shades, the gathering ranks of the dead, they know. And they come.
~ John Connolly
I looked at him, at his unshaven profile, the wisps of dark hair curling out from under his dark wool hat, the empty coffee cup forgotten in his hand. He was a mass of contradictions. It struck me that I was taking life lessons from a five-six semiretired burglar whose boyfriend, not twentyfour hours earlier, had executed a man against a brick wall. My life, I reflected, was taking some strange turns.
~ John Connolly
ABOVE PASTOR'S BAY SIX ravens flew low, barely rising over the skeletal trees. High in the clear blue sky the last geese were heading south, but the ravens moved north toward forests and mountains, toward ice and snow. They flew fast and sure into the coming dark, that they might tell the waiting wolf of all they had seen.
~ John Connolly
Although he was a northern creature, more comfortable with dark and cold than light and heat, he had long since passed the annual point of weariness with the elements, and yearned to see expanses of earth and grass unsullied by patches of grim ice.
~ John Connolly
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
~ John Cusack
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.
~ Brett Gelman
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
~ Aaron Sorkin
The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
~ Brandon Mull
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
~ Edward Hirsch
When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.
~ Edward T. Welch
demand imbalances. He believed that stories about speculators' raids were essentially ghost stories that brokers told clients to keep them in the dark
~ Edwin Lefevre
The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)
~ Elaine Kagan
It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn't answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
~ Elena Ferrante
A private sector organization of the corporate world, in general, is a dark cell where a lot of demons dwell at peak posts and is a replica of hell on the Earth.
~ Anuj Somany
He saw a beach with the night resting on it and a lake like liquid dark spilled beyond.
~ Anurag Mathur
Aislinn's mother didn't know that her daughter possessed another skill besides prophetic dreaming. A much darker one. An ability that would put her on the other side of Piefferburg Square, with the monsters. It was the reason she couldn't have anyone living with her. They might notice her odd behavior as she dealt with her ability and tell the queen about it. Aislinn could communicate with the dead.
~ Anya Bast
And maybe this man was a marauder. No one knew anything about him other than that the dark magick running through his Unseelie veins was both lethal and sexual in nature. The court buzzed with the news of his arrival and his meeting with the Summer Queen, High Royal of the Seelie Tuatha Dé Danann.
~ Anya Bast
To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.
~ Ari Berk
In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!
~ Arina Tanemura