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Quotes About Dark

the buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.
~ Colson Whitehead
You can argue for hours about the Apollonian and the Dionysian, but the dark wins every time so fuck the Beatles, just fuck 'em, perspective-wise.
~ Colson Whitehead
The fire had burnt so low that it was only a vague red glow in the night...out of the dark his voice came...
~ Vikram Chandra
Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.
~ Virginia Woolf
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
~ Virginia Woolf
The great revelation had never come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
~ Virginia Woolf
And to everybody there was always this sense of unlimited resources, she supposed, one after another, she, Lily, Augustus Carmichael, must feel, our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
~ Virginia Woolf
A system of cells interlinked within Cells interlinked within cells interlinked Within one stem. And dreadfully distinct Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let me repeat with quite force: I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome male; slow moving tall, with dark soft hair and a gloomy but all the more seductive cast of demeanour.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He traveled, he studied, he taught ... He learned to appreciate the singular little thrill of following dark byways in strange towns, knowing well that he would discover nothing, save filth and ennui and discarded merry cans with labels and the jungle jingles of exported jazz. He often felt that the famed cities, the museums, the ancient torture house and the suspended garden were but places on the map of his own madness.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a message scribbled in the dark. Anonymous.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
~ Langston Hughes
Somehow, this dark Breed warrior who was so formidable, so expertly lethal, had become her safe harbor. Her haven.
~ Lara Adrian
If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring.
~ Larissa Ione
a poza tym... rany, kole?. pr?dzej wepchn??bym fiuta w nie?yj?cego od miesi?ca trupa. - mog? si? za?o?y?, ?e ju? to robi?e?. - to eliminuje konieczno?? przytulania si? po seksie.
~ Larissa Ione
The basement was wet, dark and creepy! There were spiders and spider webs all over the place. The spider webs looked as though they had been spun years ago!
~ Larry Ellis
As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.
~ Lars Iyer
And I still walk the sidewalk mumbling something about how it will all be fine Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker Fine is the word the cuckoo cries every hour after hour on the hour— scrambling out of its dark little hole like something being chased with a knife by Time
~ Laura Kasischke
All I heard were the bumps and crunches of my tires on the dirt road, blending with the dark noises of the forest. But it wasnt the forest that scared me. It was the people who lived and prowled within them.
~ Lauren Myracle
Later, an English ship caught sight of the abandoned beasts swimming in the dark green sea on a journey to oblivion.
~ Laurence Bergreen
A Way is needed which contains a concept of Absolute Existence that includes both the Light and the Dark, and Life and Death. If, for instance, Christianity might see Lucifer as the complement and not the enemy, it might take a valuable step on the road to becoming more holistic and respectful of the human reality. If the Divine cannot partake of the Shadow, it cannot be the Divine, for the Divine cannot truly nourish humanity if it only feeds one pole of the human being.
~ Laurence Galian
The journey to marifat (becoming the mirror of Allah) may be long or it may occur at your next breath, but in the meanwhile, we must encounter duality. Duality is as 'Divine' as non-duality. The light and the dark must be regarded as sacred, so we do not fall into faulting Allah for the thorns on the rosebush.
~ Laurence Galian
The way to become a REALIZED person does not so much lie in doing good things, which of course we all should do, but in coming to some kind of understanding with the Dark, with the Shadow.
~ Laurence Galian
Writings on McCarthyism, including Naming Names, by Victor S. Navasky, and The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents, by Ellen Schrecker and Phillip Deery, provided a chilling glimpse into how all-pervasive fear can become; Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, by Geoffrey R. Stone, cataloged dozens of historical examples with eerie resonances to our current times; and books such as Ronald C. Rosbottom's When Paris Went Dark: The City
~ Celeste Ng