Dark World Quotes

• ...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

  Michael Caine

  Dark, Men, Watches

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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Depressing, Dark

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• You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Shining, World

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Smile is a good reply to the dark world.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, World

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• Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dark, Light, Break Through

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.42

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• The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dark, Long, Justice

  Darkwater ch. 2 (1920)

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• Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' - the same voice that gave life to the first Adam and spoke to Jesus, the second Adam; the same voice that speaks to all the children of God and sets them free to live in the midst of a dark world while remaining in the light.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Children, Home

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.37, Image

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• Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Dark, Light

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• And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Loss, Dark, Doe

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.154, Macmillan

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Eye, Dark

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Dark, Passing On

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• You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world around you. You become a miracle worker in the world. As you begin to understand how love is crucial to the healing of the world, your miracle work will take on a whole new meaning.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Healing, Dark, Love Is

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.205, Hay House, Inc

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• It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

  James Gandolfini

  Dark, Thinking, Lucky

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they hold true, forgetting the me I once knew, until you. The life I walk eternally was all I knew nothing more held me here to this earth until you. I feel the pain of every heart I take I feel the desire to replace all that I have grown to hate Darkness holds me close but the light still draws my empty soul The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Dark, Trying

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• Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Dark, Humanity

  "Charlize Theron calls upon her shape-shifting powers once again". Interview with Rebecca Traister, www.elle.com. March 11, 2008.

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• As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

  Chris Alexander

  Dark, Shining, Black

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• Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world.

  Gigi Graham

  Home, Humble, Exercise

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2001). “For Women Only: Keeping Your Balance in a Changing World”, Baker Publishing Group

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• We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Spiritual, Dark, Evil

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.76, CLC Publications

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• Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.

  Steve Allen

  Gratitude, Religious, Atheist

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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• The body and the soul know how to play
  In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

  Theodore Roethke

  Dark, Play, Soul

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.162, Anchor

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• The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Dark, Sunshine

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• Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.

  Salman Rushdie

  Jesus, Peace, Dark

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• I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.

  Rob McElhenney

  Dark, Philadelphia, World

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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