Quotes about Dark Night (233 quotes)

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question. Votes: 3

Susan Piver

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Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick. Votes: 3

Eckhart Tolle

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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. Votes: 2

John of the Cross

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Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. Votes: 2

Lloyd John Ogilvie

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Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. Votes: 2

Gary Allan

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I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. Votes: 2

N. Scott Momaday

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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light. Votes: 2

John of the Cross

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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. Votes: 2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. Votes: 2

Christopher Hitchens

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Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. Votes: 2

Phillips Brooks

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And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched. Votes: 2

Juliet Marillier

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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. Votes: 2

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. Votes: 2

Tupac Shakur

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In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. Votes: 2

Louis Kronenberger

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Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew. Votes: 2

Louis Aragon

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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. Votes: 2

Charles Dickens

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I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! Votes: 2

Frederick Douglass

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The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. Votes: 2

Ram Dass

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The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone. Votes: 2

Barry Manilow

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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life. Votes: 2

R. C. Sproul

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It was a dark and stormy night. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night... Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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The streets were dark with something more then night. Votes: 0

Raymond Chandler

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The streets were dark with something more than night. Votes: 0

Raymond Chandler

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For the night is dark and full of terrors. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy Votes: 0

Charles M. Schulz

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For every dark night, there is a brighter day. Votes: 0

Harriet Morgan

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He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. Votes: 0

Hernan Cortes

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Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. Votes: 0

Hernando Cortes

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Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. Votes: 0

Horace

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The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. Votes: 0

Joseph Campbell

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God is a dark night to man in this life. Votes: 0

John of the Cross

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For every single dark night there is a brighter day. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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It was another dark and windy night. Like so many others. Votes: 0

Lisa Williamson

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I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark. Votes: 0

Serge Gainsbourg

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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights. Votes: 0

Lara Flynn Boyle

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I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark. Votes: 0

Gayle Forman

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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate. Votes: 0

Bobby Fischer

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What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew. Votes: 0

Lulu

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Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. Votes: 0

George William Russell

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. Votes: 0

John Milton

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However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness. Votes: 0

Louis Zamperini

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I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. Votes: 0

John Brown

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Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq. Votes: 0

John F. Kerry

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The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. Votes: 0

Bill Bryson

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Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night. Votes: 0

Anne Frank

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Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul. Votes: 0

Tori Amos

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The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light. Votes: 0

Gu Cheng

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The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. Votes: 0

Chet Raymo

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Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night. Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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I walk these lonely streets at dark. Just me and the night; crowded head, empty heart. Votes: 0

John Mark Green

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This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. Votes: 0

Tim Winton

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There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead. Votes: 0

Eva Hart

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The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark Votes: 0

Countee Cullen

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Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. Votes: 0

Flannery O'Connor

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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn. Votes: 0

Steve Goodier

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You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. Votes: 0

Sam Keen

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. Votes: 0

Charles M. Schulz

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Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark. Votes: 0

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood. Votes: 0

Isaac Marion

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No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. Votes: 0

David Matthews

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Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. Votes: 0

Robert W. Service

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His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light. Votes: 0

Jim Steinman

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Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. Votes: 0

John Cheever

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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up. Votes: 0

Markus Zusak

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I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us. Votes: 0

John J. Geddes

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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. Votes: 0

B. Alan Wallace

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Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. Votes: 0

Marina Oswald

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If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. Votes: 0

Joe Frazier

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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky. Votes: 0

Jo Brand

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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one. Votes: 0

Karen Marie Moning

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Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul. Votes: 0

Robert A. Johnson

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I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself. Votes: 0

H. Beam Piper

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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something. Votes: 0

James Franco

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A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue? Votes: 0

Susan Abulhawa

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His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night... Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss

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A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness. Votes: 0

Henry James

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Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality. Votes: 0

James Ellis

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The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. Votes: 0

Jim Thompson

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Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people. Votes: 0

Mariel Hemingway

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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark Votes: 0

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another. Votes: 0

Catherine Doherty

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You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark. Votes: 0

Elvis Presley

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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! Votes: 0

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Votes: 0

John Milton

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When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever. Votes: 0

Giles Andreae

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As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You. Votes: 0

Sara Groves

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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... Votes: 0

John Milton

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If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. Votes: 0

Charles Simic

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Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each. Votes: 0

Johnathan Jena

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The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. Votes: 0

Victoria Kahler

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the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered. Votes: 0

Anna Leonowens

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One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them. Votes: 0

Benjamin Carson

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Votes: 0

Jean Baudrillard

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That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ... Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light. Votes: 0

Nick Gordon

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I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits. Votes: 0

Jerry Spinelli

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Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night. Votes: 0

Arthur Lynch

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As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. Votes: 0

Daniel J. Rice

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For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special. Votes: 0

James Bovard

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It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile. Votes: 0

Anusha Atukorala

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night. Votes: 0

Alexandra Fuller

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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep. Votes: 0

Linda Ronstadt

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Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. Votes: 0

Scott Westerfeld

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As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness. Votes: 0

Gelett Burgess

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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. Votes: 0

Salvatore Quasimodo

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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright. Votes: 0

Neil Young

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The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul. Votes: 0

Caroline Myss

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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. Votes: 0

James Thurber

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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali

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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again. Votes: 0

Charlotte Gray

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Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep " The storm is in my soul. Votes: 0

Helen Maria Williams

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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage... Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world. Votes: 0

Robin Hobb

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I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. Votes: 0

Loreena McKennitt

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Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right! Votes: 0

Lewis Carroll

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The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night. Votes: 0

Saib Tabrizi

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Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt

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. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. Votes: 0

Karen Cushman

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Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Votes: 0

Dylan Thomas

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The Witch can gaze clearly into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche just as the full moon can light up the darkness of night. Votes: 0

Raven Grimassi

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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. Votes: 0

Vilayat Inayat Khan

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Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops. Votes: 0

Helene Wecker

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You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night donât haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds. Votes: 0

David Wong

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Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. Votes: 0

Galileo Galilei

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It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark. Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt

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There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant

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How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night? Votes: 0

Doug Larson

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There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth Votes: 0

Carl Henegan

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The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night. Votes: 0

Shmuley Boteach

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Night had comenight that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day. Votes: 0

Barnabas

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night. Votes: 0

William Carlos Williams

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Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges. Votes: 0

Margaret J. Wheatley

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we have forgotten what night tastes like, salted by full moon silver rupturingthe dark. we have forgotten how the skin sings when the lunar fervor unfurls across its follicles. Votes: 0

Beth Morey

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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M. Votes: 0

Alice Sebold

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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light! Votes: 0

Adelaide Anne Procter

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No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold. Votes: 0

Christopher Pearse Cranch

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Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear Votes: 0

Iain Banks

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The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night. Votes: 0

Sam Keen

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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars. Votes: 0

Haniel Long

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The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below. Votes: 0

Stevie Smith

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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. Votes: 0

James Wolcott

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A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom! Votes: 0

J.G. Farrell

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Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder. Votes: 0

Selma Lagerlof

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