Darkening Quotes - Page 2

• Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.283

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• When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

  Edwin Morgan

  Dream, Rain, Love You

  Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press

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• Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.

  Alison Croggon

  Heart, Light, Shadow

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• The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Air, Cities

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.103

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• And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
  A darkening shudder; water fell away;
  The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.

  Yvor Winters

  Whales, Sea, Water

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• Good is that darkening of our lives,
  Which only God can brighten;
  But better still that hopeless load,
  Which none but God can lighten.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Hopeless, Stills

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.231

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Hate, Heart, Men

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Night, Reality

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.96, Vintage Canada

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• I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.

  Harriet Martineau

  Religious, Philosophy, Believe

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.101, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I shall desire and I shall find
  The best of my desires;
  The autumn road, the mellow wind
  That soothes the darkening shires.
  And laughter, and inn-fires.

  Rupert Brooke

  Laughter, Autumn, Fire

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

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• It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I was leaving behind more than just my six fellow workmen. I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in itsaftermath, that my life would never—could never  — be the same again.

  Travis Walton

  Running, Glowing, Years

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• While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

  Ani DiFranco

  Change, Sky, Waiting

  Song: Millennium Theater, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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• The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way. He scatters faith, oppressing, burning and darkening us inwardly. We must look upon all such actions as illusions and falsehood, and break through this imaginary wall to the Lord, or to His Holy Mother, or His saints. As soon as you break through this wall you will be immediately saved. 'Your faith has made you whole' (Mt. 9:22).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Wall

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• The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

  W. H. Auden

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  'The Witnesses' (1935) l. 67

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• There was a moment, late into the season, where I was noticing I was darkening a little bit at night. I was like, 'It will be nice when the show is over for the season. I need a vacation.'

  Justin Theroux

  Nice, Night, Vacation

  Source: www.elle.com

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