Dark Quotes - Page 25

• Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ruins, Standing, Right Now

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• He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

  Denis Johnson

  Opportunity, Lasts, Saws

  Denis Johnson (1983). “Angels”, Knopf

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• Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Shadow Work, Cameras

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• Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Ocean, Heart

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• Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Ideas, Brain

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Certain Girls: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

  Joseph Heller

  Night, Knives, Justice

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” “Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!” “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Dad, Death Eaters

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• In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.

  Sylvia Plath

  Confused, Home, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

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• Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lord Of The Ring, Stills, Divides

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Book, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6820, Delphi Classics

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Italian, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wish, Beats

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• She lay in the dark and knew everything.

  Ian Mcewan

  Lays

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• Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

  Michel Foucault

  Night, Light, Giving

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.61, Routledge

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• Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.66

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• I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Light, Giving, Joining

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• Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eye, Expression, Space

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.14

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• Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Men, Hair

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Three Men and a Maid: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

  Khalil Gibran

  Water, Evil, Hunger And Thirst

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Hunting, Doors

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• I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Fun, Stupid

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.222, Penguin

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• She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Wings, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Mar 08, 2015

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• His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

  Margaret Weis

  Torches, Love For Her, His Love

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Dragons of a Fallen Sun: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume One”, p.34, Wizards of the Coast

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