Oscar Wilde Quotes, Dark Quotes, Secret Quotes

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Passion Quotes , Dark Quotes

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Children Quotes , Dark Quotes

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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Tags : Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Dark Quotes

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

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It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Dark Quotes , Light Quotes

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Dark Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dark Quotes

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Dark Quotes

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dark Quotes , Power Quotes

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Dark Quotes , Light Quotes

When it's dark enough men see stars.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dark Quotes

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

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Tags : Adam Riess Quotes , Believe Quotes , Dark Quotes

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Dark Quotes , Light Quotes

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dark Quotes

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Dark Quotes

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Dark Quotes , Science Quotes

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Dark Quotes , Air Quotes

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dark Quotes , Depth Quotes

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dark Quotes , People Quotes