Best Dark Woods Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica. To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.”

Courage Dark Woods To Be Brave

Book:The Beatryce Prophecy

Source: The Beatryce Prophecy

“Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.”

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Author:Jack Gilbert

“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.”

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Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”

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Book:The Purgatorio

Source: The Purgatorio

“Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.”

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Author:Alice Hoffman

“As Dante says in the beginning of the Inferno, 'In the midst of life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, for the right path was lost.' I think we're all doing that, in our various ways Looking for our Selves in the dark wood. I hope you find yourself on your journey.”

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Author:Christopher Vogler

“I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.'' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”

“Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.”

“I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.”

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Book:MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

“Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.”

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Book:Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

Source: Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

“Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one”

Mind Heart Said Done Remember Dark White Sun Fire Kings Moon Lonely Woods Golden Hopeless Armour Dark Woods Hopeless Love

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”

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Book:The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno

Source: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno

“Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.”

People Earth Sacred Native Native American Dark Woods Body Heat

Author:Chief Seattle

“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.”

“"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."”

Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series

“Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.”

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Author:Huston Smith

“Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”

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Book:I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

“. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.”

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Author:Chief Seattle

“You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.”

“And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?”

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Author:Paul Elie

“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.”

People Ifs Ideas Earth Water Nature Air Sky Land Strange Sacred Sells Warmth Seattle Sparkle Freshness Land And Water Dark Woods Body Heat

Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”

“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.”