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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.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lonely, Hate, Loneliness

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• I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

  T.C. Boyle

  Drinking, Believe, Dark

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.185, Penguin

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• He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

  Hernando Cortes

  Travel, Dark, Night

  "History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes, Vol. 2". Book by William Hickling Prescott, J.B. Lippincott - Company, p. 346, 1877.

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• Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Lonely, Sex, Dark

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Lying, Blessed, Eye

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

  Tupac Shakur

  Tattoo, Rap, Dark

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

  Countee Cullen

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America

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• The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Attitude, Heart

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  Edmund White

  Atheist, Dark, Night

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

  Steve Goodier

  Sunshine, Dark, Night

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• Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Children, Father

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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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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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!

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Strong, Stars, Heart

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.77

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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• So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Mean

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Soul

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan

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• There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

  Ernest Bramah

  Suicide, Dark, Night

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• There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

  Stuart Stevens

  Running, Brother, Dark

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

  Eva Hart

  Stars, Dark, Night

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• How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

  W. G. Sebald

  Book, Twilight, Dark

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.140, Vintage Canada

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

  John of the Cross

  Dark, Night, Men

  Saint John of the Cross (1979). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross”, I C S Publications, Institute of Carmelite Studies

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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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dark, Night, Giving

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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.

  Charles Dickens

  Fall, Dark, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.101, The Planet

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• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Pain, Love You

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• Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.

  Lloyd John Ogilvie

  Motivational, New Beginnings, Positive Thinking

  Lloyd John Ogilvie (1990). “Silent Strength”, Harvest House Pub

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