Best lying & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”

People Knows Men Hands Government Care Lying Dark Party Ordinary Folks Capitalist

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”

Light Eye Lying Grows Dark Darkness Losing Seeking

Book:The works of Shakespeare

Source: The works of Shakespeare

“The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.”

Knows Men Want Giving Kind May Light Law Lying Dark Clear Fields Hot Wine Tongue Ice Wet Jungle Unfamiliar

Book:Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)

Source: Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)

“Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Looks Ends Play Moments Able Wanted Lying Realizing Dark Darkness Seeing Direct Handle Dark Moments

Author:Ethan Hawke

“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.”

Art Light Pain Lying Choices Dark Sacrifice Regret Cruelty Good And Bad Light And Dark Dark Art Chiaroscuro

Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.”

Way Art Bigs Lying Dark Painting Masters Art Is Bigger Isolated Viewers Painting A Picture Dark Art

Author:Bill Whittle

“I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.”

Ifs Light Lying Black Dark Atheism Creation Genius Worship Come Up Proof Savages Outrage Benevolent Proof Of God Good Lies

Author:Gary Numan

“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”

World Mind Humans Reason Lying Evil Dark Virtue Ignorance Roots Blind Misery Errors Guides Human Mind Trembling Felicity Bane Human Happiness Human Reason Poisoners

Author:Frances Wright

“I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.”

Feels Lying Night Dark Darkness Beach Rising Tides Floating Lifting Washing

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!”

Lying Dark White Air Sky Middle Creatures Fairs Silent Speed Graves Snow Height Streams Lakes Haste Frail Fling Gazing Flakes

Author:William C. Bryant

“Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.”

Eye Lying Turns Sides Water Dark Praying Flow Silent Clouds Heavy Snow Gentle Lakes Over It Gray Frozen I Pray Mist Flakes Wavering Hang Over

Author:William C. Bryant

“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”

Lying Night Dark Rooms Months Bed Terror Emptiness Corpses Slippery

Book:Wilderness Tips

Source: Wilderness Tips

“[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one.”

World Reason Lying Religion Fall Dark Steps This World Flower Impact No Reason Overwhelming Comprehension Meadows Realisation Stunned Captivated Dazed

Author:Quentin Smith

“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”

Knows Firsts Eye Death Lying Hours Dark Planets Lovers Finals Paradise His Eyes

Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen

“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

“Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.”

Trying Lying Dark Secret Lord Byron Dark Secrets

Author:Karen Maitland

“I would be lying if I said I cut out all dessert. When Im training, I try to satisfy those cravings with a slightly healthier dessert, like a piece of dark chocolate or whipped cream and strawberries. Those are two of my favorites!”

Ifs Trying Said Two Would Be Lying Dark Pieces Cutting Training Chocolate Cream Craving Dessert Strawberries Dark Chocolate Whipped Cream

Author:Josie Loren

“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”

Knows Feels Humans Looks Soul Eye Lying Night Dark Common Effects Holy Constitution Blessed Saint Get Up Emptiness Fatigue Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

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