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“If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.”

Ifs Dark Chance Pessimism Negativity Countenance

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.”

May Death Dark Sadness Evening Bells Twilight Farewell

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.”

Men Dream Dark East Unseen Happy Man Bridal

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.”

Ifs Soul Reason Light Artist Dark Rooms Our Lives Familiar Poke Dark Room

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

“I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.”

Hard Light Dark Walks Trust Promise

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.”

Ifs Eye Dark

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.”

Light Faith Dark Deities

Author:William Davenant

“O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.”

Knows Stills Light Death Dark Wise Eternal Embrace Brave Graves Passages Invites Valiant Sorrowful Eternal Light

Author:William Davenant

“Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”

Should Important Sides Black Dark Nasty Dark Side Orchids

Author:Gillian Flynn

“I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day is a dark lonely field and the urunj of a car, and a large stick and a roll of duct tape! My MOM shops at Wal-Mart! She gets calls all the time now; she's worried about me! I'm not the most emotionally stable guy in the world; I'll admit that... I do have some problems, but my God, I'm not a murderer!”

World Ideas Problem Guy Fun Dark Car Fields Mom Lonely Sticks My Mom Worried Shops Stable Tape Murderer Accused Duct Tape Being Accused Fun Day

Author:Al Snow

“It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.”

Social Dark Rich One Thing Behavior Unity Features Display Outrage One Thing At A Time Social Behavior

Author:George C. Homans

“In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.”

Men Humans Made Earth Mother Dark Rooms Common Months Birth Breathe Feds Her Beauty Dark Room

Author:John Masefield

“Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.”

Age Dark Youth Fairs Parks Gray Stumbling Toothless Stags

Author:I. L. Peretz

“How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.”

Faith Dark Existence Mystery Figures Strange Scene Shadow Profound Explanation Shifting

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.”

Men Heart Soul Light Spiritual Spirit Christ Dark Grace Holy Crosses Shining Bounds Conversion Holy Spirit Illumination God's Grace Light Up

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.”

Ifs World Real Dark Path Wise Victory Discipline Lessons Deny Trials Command Desert Sunshine Trust In God Assured Tunnels Wise Love Real Victory

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.”

Mind Wisdom Strong Nature Dark Powerful Sky Wind Ego Blue Clouds Blow Disappear Arise Blue Sky Dark Clouds Strong Winds

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark”

Feels Looks Funny Dark How You Feel Skipper

Author:Paula Wall

“As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.”

Night Women Dark Cat Madness Primal Lapses Savagery

Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.”

Dream Found Black Dark Known Sky Folks Bitter Smoke Dawn Bitterness Scream Weary Toil Dew Lanes

Author:Mary Carolyn Davies

“To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.”

Form Waiting Dark Knowing Clear Protect Aspect Transformation Outcomes Womb

Book:Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

“Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.”

Ifs Dark Answers Moral Power Perception Remains Active Faculty Phenomenon Observers Brutes Corresponding

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Motivational Running Kids Games Dark Rooms Listening Affected Pills Repetitive Electronic Music Dark Room Pacs

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

Ifs Moments Light Earth Dark Existence Shadow Stronger Cheer Contrast Old Friends Transitory

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

People Stories Heaven Dark Broken Computer Fairy Afterlife Relatable Broken Down Afraid Of Death Fairy Stories Not Afraid Of Death Early Death

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.”

Dark Attention Flower Grew Needed One Day Garden Decided Filled Constant Things To Do Dark Thoughts Better Things To Do

Author:Brian Andreas

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.”

“Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil.”

I Can Soul Evil Force Dark Sin Lord Devil Forgiving Connected My Soul Wicked Introducing Dark Forces

Author:Jay-Z

“Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.”

Soul Dark Sin Masters My Soul

Author:John Petrucci

“Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.”

Long Soul Left Dark Dancing My Soul Satan Long Ago

Author:Lana Del Rey

“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.”

People Ifs Feels Should Littles Long Soul Earth Night Heaven Dark Dying Busy Atheist Bees Stoic Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Busy Bee

Author:Edmund White

“Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.”

Justice Dark Path Valleys Segregation I Had A Dream Desolate Racial Justice I Have A Dream Speech Kings Speech Soul Force Gradualism

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for”

Asks Energy Sides Dark Music Blood Rocks Music Is Boring Rhythm Sensuality Classic Boredom Subtle Classical Music Dark Side Refined Rock Music Sinister

Author:Yuja Wang

“It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.”

Looks Two Beautiful Song Next Dark Sun Week Sky Blue Come Up Wow Two Weeks Blue Sky Misty Alps

Author:Jeff Lynne

“It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: Oooh no! Too much sunlight.”

People Evil Dark Too Much Blessing Sunlight Pretty People

Author:Geri Halliwell

“The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.”

“The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.”

Light Form Fall Given Dark Results Quality Darkness Areas Locals Tone Affected Inherent Lightness Light And Dark

Author:Nathan Goldstein

“These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.”

World Real Remember Force Difficult Dark Results Conflict Finals Mortals Real World Bad Day Difficult Days

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

Love Heart Self Dark Conformity Anorexia Eating Disorder Dungeons Non Conformity Inexorable Jailer

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.”

Ifs Way Happens Dies Dark Glasses Pairs Weekend Props Dark Glasses

Author:John McCain

“An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.”

Dark Rooms Conditions Lows Regard Stable Foul Basements Contractor Tenements Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.”

Life Made Sides Dark Progress Becoming Finding Yourself Passages Nevertheless Confusing Unfolding Unpredictability Bright Side

Author:Marion Winik

“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.”

Knows Mean Light Form Given Nations Dark Poor Powerful Class Rich Color Weak Skins Continents Colonialism Exploitation Consent Colony Subjugation Dark Skin

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.”

Force Dark Air Meetings Ill Blow Void Burned Steam Bruises Gunpowder Recoil

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.”

People House Individual Natural Dark Taste Surface Noise Kitchen Appetite Slips Mice Caution

Book:My çntonia

Source: My çntonia

“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.”

Humans Long Sometimes Light Energy Leadership Dark Shadow Casts Empowering Intensity Enlightening Elusive Bright Lights Enigmatic

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?”

People Looks Doe Suffering Dark Behinds Air Superiors Justify Dishes Inferiors Snob Looking Down

Book:Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!”

Men Light Happiness Universe Dark Candle Happy Man Candle Lights

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!”

Men Life Light Dark Sun Deserve Corridors Crumbs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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