Deep Dark Quotes

• Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
  I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

  Jim Steinman

  Lonely, Dark, Night

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• Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Loneliness, Dark, Solitude

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.127, The Floating Press

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

  Mikhail Tal

  Dark, Psychology, Opponents

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• I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Dark, Should, Planets

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• And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

  Jane Seymour

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

  Cory Doctorow

  Dark, Secret, Criminal Mind

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.172, Macmillan

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• The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.

  Hal Borland

  Lonely, Autumn, Winter

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• They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

  Michael Scott

  War, Dark, Thinking

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• Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Dark, Sea

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Block, Dark

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

  Hermann Bahr

  Art, Men, Soul

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• You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

  Nick Nolte

  Running, Mean, Dark

  "Nick Nolte And James Coburn" by Andrew Boorstyn and Thelma Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

  David Berg

  Dream, Disappointment, Dark

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• Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Dark, Mirrors, Editing

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Dark, Laughing

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• I can begin to give God attributes. He's a counselor. He's a healer. He's a friend that sits closer than a brother. To me, he just - I sum it up that he's my anchor, my rock, my foundation in life, that my life was - had an emptiness - a deep, dark void with something - it had a lot of fulfillment externally, but something inside said there's more.

  Paula White

  Brother, Dark, Anchors

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.

  Ashly Burch

  Dark, Voice, People

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• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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• [Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and just prance around the house, entertain the kids....I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done.

  Johnny Depp

  Goodbye, Mean, Kids

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• But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Acceptance, Dark

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• 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.

  Meg Rosoff

  Writing, Dark, Self

  "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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