Dank Quotes

• Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

  Joss Whedon

  Life, Hurt, Peace

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Passion)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

  Charles Bukowski

  Light, Darkness, May

  Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”

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• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

  John Milton

  Weed, Sea, Dropping

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.691

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• Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

  Avey Tare

  Swamps, Hell, Wet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Light, Laughing

  Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”

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• Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

  Desmond Tutu

  Air, Order, Shining

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• No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

  Ogden Nash

  Grief, Dark, Pits

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

  Don DeLillo

  Source, Fluid, Force

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

  Brandon Mull

  Dirty, Taken, Cells

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• As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it.
  [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt
  Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]

  Friedrich Ruckert

  Air, Glitter, Creation

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• You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Light, Levi's, Sometimes

  Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”

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• Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Song, Pain, Spring

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• The hollows are heavy and dank
  With the steam of the Goldenrods.

  Bayard Taylor

  Steam, Heavy, Goldenrod

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.152

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• I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

  Abbi Glines

  Hate, Hair, Color

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• If you listen to Barack Obama, if you listen to Hillary Clinton, they're portraying Donald Trump as this deep, dark, dividing, dank presence that sees America as dwindling away and failing and everybody's in bad shape. They think they're the paragons of optimism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dark, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined

  Abbi Glines

  Baby, Protect, Predestined

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• I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Cells, Might

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• Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

  Ezra Pound

  Stress, Objectivity, Expression

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

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• Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent; hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!

  Matthew Arnold

  Autumn, Boys, Play

  'Rugby Chapel, November 1857'

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• Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?

  Joss Whedon

  Lying, Sleep, Passion

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997-2003.

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Thinking, Soul

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• The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.

  Aldo Leopold

  Real, Animal, Jewels

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.104, Library of America

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• No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cake, Laughing, Would Be

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my wallowing moments I can feel as if I'm already on the outside of society, peering wistfully in.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Dark, Rooms

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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