Best walking & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.”

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”

Ifs Trying Children House Left Dark Wonder Walking Our Children Your Children Skates

Author:Leopold Fechtner

“What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.”

Thinking Knows Helping Hands Light Grows Dark Forever Atheism Walking Positive Atheism Guides Trials Forests Wander Satan Up And Down Darling Lone Errands

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.”

Ifs Long Said Reading Dark Heard Sky Childhood Grew Walking Driving Southern Highways Dickens Carriages Ponies Dearest Friend

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.”

Writing Littles Ends Stories Light Dark Rooms Walking Findings Short Story Dark Room

Author:Dan Chaon

“When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."”

Kind Long Said Light Pain Mother Dark Walks Walking Sorrow Daughter Died My Daughter

Author:Isabel Allende

“'The Walking Dead' was my favorite show before I even auditioned for it. That's every actor's dream, to be on a show that they're a fan of. It's just dark, and as a comedian, I'm drawn to dark things.”

Shows Dream Actors Dark Fans Walking My Favorite Comedian Walking Dead Dark Things

Author:Josh McDermitt

“Many nightclubs from this era were very loud and very dark. Plus some of the best ones were incredibly crowded. To begin with, I could seldom get back far enough to get people into frame from head to foot and when I could, people would be constantly walking in front of me all the time. Then I bought a 24-mm lens and only had to be four or five feet away.”

People Enough Would Be Dark Five Four Feet Fronts Walking Eras Loud Plus Get Back Lenses Crowded Nightclubs

Author:Derek Ridgers

“I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who I think I am?" voice in your head. I find that only leads me down dark monkey-mind paths and patterns of behavior that benefits no one.”

Thinking Knows Way Mind Voice Dark Path Walking Behavior Benefits Beats Patterns Monkeys Way To Live Leading Me Monkey Mind

Author:Patrick Fabian

“Not to get too depressing, I've always been a slight whirling dervish in my life. I've always been at once a very spritely and energetic hilarious lady, but at the same time there is an equal dark side that's as comparable to the jovial - constantly walking on the high wire trying to figure out who to be each day.”

Trying Sides Dark Figures Walking Equal Each Day Depressing Wire Dark Side Energetic Jovial Whirling Dervish

Author:Karen Elson

“Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's the place from which I write, and the more troubled the circumstances, the deeper into the hearts and psyches of these characters I'm likely to go, opening every door in that dark hallway, and walking all the way in.”

Writing Heart Character Belief Dark Compassion Circumstances Walking Psych

Author:Jack Driscoll

“I think I was just a strange kid. I was definitely a weirdo. I ran a newspaper that had really dark stories all the time. My mom was always fun, she had this large box of costumes and I remember dressing up as a door-to-door saleswoman with a wig and this small suitcase I was using as a briefcase. I was walking down the street like that; I was sure I was fooling everyone.”

Thinking Kids Remember Fun Dark Strange Mom Walking My Mom Ran Weirdo

Author:Katie Dippold

“A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.”

Different Whole Light Together Turns Dark Ready Walking Madness Believer Voters Tides Keep The Faith Different Religions Walking Together

Author:Anne Lamott

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”

Way Song Dark Walks Beauty Darkness Walking Uplifting Rainbow Trails Mist

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.”

May Has Beens Dark Walks Talking Walking Faults Sinner Dark Times

Author:Josh Turner

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”

“Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”

Knows Matter Moments Happens Artist Next Dark Bears Citizens Walking Illusion No Matter What Safety Nobody Knows Whistling Walking In The Dark

Author:James A. Baldwin

“It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.”

World Want Heart Might Moving Dark Cities Knowing Streets Walking Around The World Poison Bus Riding Not Knowing Strain Elevators Tarantulas City Bus

Book:The Boy Detective Fails

Source: The Boy Detective Fails

“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.”

Source: Certain Girls: A Novel

“Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.”

Writing Light Dark Novel Written Walking Halls Flip Hallways

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.”

Firsts Christian Faces Faith Belief Dark Walking Prove Speed Pray Love Eat Pray Love Book Eat Pray And Love Best Eat Pray Love Eat Love Pray

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.”

“Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.”

Thinking World Trying Looks Children Littles House Dark Sky Crazy Dog Huge Baby Walking Red Clouds Scary Supposed To Be Dirty Awe Openness Wow Reverence Burned Dark Clouds

Author:Anne Lamott

“Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”

“And neither do I, asshole. (Wren) Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who’d have ever thought it? Whoever she was, she must have had a lot of talent to make you speak. Next thing you know, she’ll have the dead walking. Quick, call a Dark-Hunter. I’m sure some of them would like another resurrection. (Dev)”

Knows Whole Next Speak Dark Talent Walking Sentences Wow Resurrection Multiple Tigers Hunters Syllables Wrens Dark Hunter

Book:Unleash The Night

Source: Unleash The Night

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”

Want Said Dark Behinds Walking Lessons Shining Someday Preacher Behind You Shining Through

Author:Colum McCann

“Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)”

“Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.”

Ifs Firsts Faces Dark Walking Definitions Speed Devotion Rational Assurance Diligence Pray Love Eat Pray Love Book Eat Pray And Love Best Eat Pray Love

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.”

Knows Mind Might Moving Turns Jesus Water Dark Saws Tree Figures Walking Ragged

Book:Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge

Source: Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge

“God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.”

“They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.”

Looks Dark Walking Ghost Rainy Walking Dead

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.”

“Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

“Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star. Tonight there was a sky full. Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe.”

Wells Eye Universe Stars Dark Rooms Darkness Sky Walking Rose Manage Tonight Far Away Blur Switching Dark Room Brightest Star

Author:Hilary McKay

“Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence”

Source: Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010

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