Best dark & corners Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.”

Firsts Hands Light Running Interest Dark Fingers Rounds Careful Corners Be Careful Signals

Book:101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

Source: 101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

“Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.”

Mean Dark Appreciate Delight Corners Fearful Elegance Fearlessness

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa

“The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.”

Humans Ideas Stories Light Dark Shining Corners

Author:Jill Tarter

“Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.”

Beautiful Dark Results Lessons Tasks Intention Corners Good Intentions Lesson Learned

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.”

Book Dies Dark Talent Forgotten Corners Compare Tempted

Author:Denis Diderot

“Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.”

People Trying Feelings Dark Style Research Corners Mood Nervous Odd Boost

Author:Gerald Seymour

“I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.”

Made War Light Earth Belief Dark Mankind Position Produce Intellectual Spring Slave Corners Absurd Rejoice Reverse Globes Freeman Enquiry Liberality

Book:The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

Source: The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”

People World Children Light Stars Dark Sky Corners Abyss Penetrate Grownups

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

People Use Turns Dark Chance Growing Up Growing Fame Who You Are Size Corners Defense Armor Curls Swagger

Author:Peter Dinklage

“Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.”

Writing Mind Wells Self Dark Essentials Corners Self Knowledge Subconscious Subconscious Mind Deep Dark

Author:Meg Rosoff

“It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.”

Doe Soul Fighting Dark Soldier Corners Battlefields Alleys Dig Deep Back Alleys

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.”

Source: JOURNEY HEART PB

“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.”

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”

Heart Spirit Dark My Heart Holy Catholic Corners Holy Spirit Cheerful Neglected Enlightening Dwelling Beam Cheerfulness Spiritual Leadership

Author:Saint Augustine

“There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.”

Fear Sides Dark Rooms Corners Ghost Chairs Gloom

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”

Littles House Dark Attitude Bird Wings Corners Sat Bishops Carrion

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.”

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.”

People Ifs Found Speak Dark Lord Israel Corners If I Could Obscurity

Author:Isaiah

“Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”

Able Imagination Dark Healthy Shame Guilt Corners Driven Monsters Embarrassment Healthy Relationship

Author:Alan Moore

“The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.”

Dark Corners Carrie Lamps Good Will

Book:Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

Source: Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

“It just seems that if you hang on for a while longer, there is always something bright around the corner, or the dark clouds will go away and there will be sunshine again.”

Ifs Seems Dark Clouds Corners Sunshine Going Away Around The Corner Dark Clouds

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Then I saw a small dark dot enter the lower left corner of the vision. It floated up a ways and then suddenly disappeared. The Lord authoritatively announced, "That dot represents all the evil of all beings and of all history combined. It's temporary and fleeting compared to Who I Am. So what are you going to magnify?"”

Way Evil Left Dark Vision Lord Saws Corners Who I Am Temporary Fleeting Dots

Author:Bob Hartley

“I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.”

Writing Soul Self Helping Term Justice Dark Models Capacity Corners Insight Memoir Sense Of Self Capacity To Love Undecided Love Wisdom

Author:Cornel West

“I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.”

People Ifs Mind Heart Body Able Dark My Own Clean Corners Cells Mind And Body Chanting

Author:Krishna Das

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