Dark Times Quotes - Page 2

• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Adversity, Dark, Tough Times

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

  Terri Windling

  Dark, Sublime, Age

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• Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

  David Foster Wallace

  Stupid, Dark, Men

  Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no reason for doubt-filled pessimism, for the Wihinei of the Aryo-Germanics is too deep - even if unconscious and latent - rooted in every Aryo-Germanic soul and it awaits onl the call to awaken which will and must catch fire in order to instill the flame of inspiration in the Aryo-Germanic sensibility.

  Guido von List

  Inspiration, Twilight, Dark

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• Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

  Steven Weinberg

  Change, Dark, Science

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• There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

  John Cusack

  Dark, Rocks, Air

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2008.

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• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Dark

  "YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Dark, Tough Times

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

  Harry Belafonte

  Dark, Rights, Citizens

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• I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

  Michelle Shocked

  Dark, Joy

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• Our music was meant to be motivational, we thought it would be interesting - when you have a breakup, or when you have hard times with your honey, you know, hard times in life, you can feel sad about it, or you can sometimes, take a dark time and make it, like, One lumen nicer, you know what I mean?

  Greg Saunier

  Breakup, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

  Joachim Gauck

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Country, War, Dark

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• The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Son, Dark

  SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

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• I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dark, Views, People

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Choices, Inspirational Tattoo, Potters

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• It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life -- surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.

  Demi Lovato

  Dark, World, Want

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

  Dave Eggers

  Dark, Light, Land

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.372, Vintage

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Dark, Fire

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...

  Noel Coward

  Dark, Clouds, Sky

  "Song: There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner". 1952.

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• If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.

  Lady Gaga

  Giving Up, Dark, Circles

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• The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

  David Wolpe

  Struggle, Character, Sadness

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• Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try to give love to someone, especially then.

  Harold Klemp

  Life, Dark, Giving

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• Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Dark, Animal

  "Lutetia; or, Paris". The Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII, 1842.

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