Dark Tide Quotes

#1. Silence itself seemed to flow from him like a dark tide, black and thick as ink. It chilled her bones.

Cassandra Clare

#2. I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Colonel Sanders

#3. It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.

J.A. Clement

#4. So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

Daniel Defoe

#5. I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. The need to find comfort in the dark. And it was a comfort, being next to her. So I just stayed there, hearing her breath move in and out, sounding like the tide of some exotic sea.

Matt Haig

#7. Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.

Caroline Myss

#8. He held on to me like I was a rock, the only thing keeping him from drifting out with the tide of dark memories.
It was the first time I realized he need me too.

Jodi Meadows

#9. I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#10. And yet she continues to skip rope in my mind and on my canvases, raising her dark, hopeful face to the sky, innocent of the depth of people's cruelty toward "the other" - those who, for whatever reason, must swim against the tide instead of letting it carry them. . .

Wally Lamb

#11. . . . nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was rising fast.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.

Tana French

#14. Dew. Their feet scuffed the dark sidewalks. Raymond had two moods now. Despair came with no warning, rogue waves of helplessness that sucked him out on a rippling tide. When it receded, he was left with a dry and

Edward W. Robertson

#15. I think you glow more when you embarrassed. Maybe that's how you blush.

Kat Falls

#16. We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. 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.

Anne Lamott

#18. We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

Henry Rollins

#19. For only when we can outwait the dark will the sharpness of experience recede like a tide to reveal what has survived beneath it all. Often what seems tragic, if looked at long enough, reveals itself as part of a larger transformation.

Mark Nepo

#20. I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.

Penelope Cruz

#21. I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

Katherine Mansfield

#22. 'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

Frederick William Thomas

#23. When we lose the world, we find ourselves. When we lose ourselves, we find God. When we lose God, we find liberation.The trick is to learn to lose.

R.N. Prasher

#24. Far beneath the rusty Baltimore dawn, stirrings in the maximum security ward. Down where it is never dark the tormented sense beginning day as oysters in a barrel open to their lost tide. God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again and the ravers cleared their throats.

Thomas Harris

#25. Mistakes,' he said with effort, 'are also important to me. I don't cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them.

Andrzej Sapkowski