Top 100 Darken Quotes
#1. Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?
Jean Paul
#2. Your evil cannot darken this tale, it was written from the heavens.
Christine Zolendz
#3. But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wander on a darken'd earth,
Where all things round me breathed of him.
Alfred Tennyson
#4. How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares
if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
#5. He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!
Ray Davies
#6. Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
Philip Sidney
#7. Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.
John Updike
#8. Be clear and smiling for those who are glad to see you.
Someone who is not, let his way darken like a pen leaving a faltering ink trail.
Rumi
#9. Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away; ...
Robert Montgomery
#10. The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#12. A son," the Queen said, and her smile lit up the room. "Will I give birth soon?"
The old woman nodded.
"When?"
The old woman reached out and rested her hand on top of the basket, watched the Queen's eyes darken. "When he's more beautiful than you.
Wheeler Scott
#13. He watched her emerald eyes darken with need until they were the color of the Highland hills warmed by the summer sun.
Shelly Thacker
#14. Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.
Elif Shafak
#15. What the hell was up with her nicknames anyway? Sunshine. Daisy. Candy. All bright, sweet things. She should insist on being called Spider or something. Darken her image a bit.
Cherrie Lynn
#16. I thought, Love gives light to darken life.
But now i realized ...
Love gives a light to darken life and later it takes the light and make it as a darkest life.
Saravanan
#17. The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
John Milton
#18. A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
Orson Welles
#19. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
#20. You're still such an unbelievably good-looking man. I need you, Kane." Avery watched lust darken his husband's eyes.
Kindle Alexander
#21. Slowly the pale
dew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human.
Denise Levertov
#22. Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.
Louie Giglio
#23. It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity. These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by 'surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life' (Lk. 21:34).
John Of Kronstadt
#24. No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope will be sure, his faith steadfast.
Charlotte Bronte
#25. The little cloud drifting before their glorious sun will darken the earth as long as I please.
Samuel Beckett
#26. As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore.
Christina Rossetti
#27. Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
Timothy Keller
#28. For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.
Hippocrates
#29. The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.
Norman Macbeth
#31. Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
#32. Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?
Seth Shostak
#33. Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.
Pope Pius X
#34. Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events.
Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
#35. Hands should never be to used to hurt and destroy anyone but should be used to better our world! Let's HELP brighten humanity ... not help darken it!
Timothy Pina
#36. And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#37. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
Saul D. Alinsky
#39. When i spend too much time in my head, focused on things in the past or things in the future ... when i lose sight of the present, i fold in on myself, mentally, my thoughts become toxic and distorted, my emotions, darken.
Jaeda DeWalt
#40. His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things: - [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace. [1.]
John Owen
#42. You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.
Chris Brady
#43. Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.
Li Bai
#44. When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
Donald Hall
#45. Hiya, Nashira,' he smiled.
'Hi, Jared,' I said, feeling my cheeks darken. I still wasn't used to him to make myself at ease in his company.
'I guess it's weird when I saw I had a feeling you'll be the one,' he said cheerfully. 'Welcome aboard.
Deepika Kumaaraguru
#46. Use your energy to be a light to brighten humanity ... not a shadow that will darken it!
Timothy Pina
#47. 4 I prayed to the LORD, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. 6 In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened; he saved me from all my troubles.
Anonymous
#48. The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
Claire Forlani
#49. Blessings to all who diligently work to help those in despair. Constantly shining light into our darken world!
Timothy Pina
#50. When you choose to light, I weep, when you choose to darken, I weep
Triss
#51. I make a point of seeing the sunset. Even if I am on duty, I go on deck to watch the sky darken into twilight. It helps me remember that this strange place is still the earth, and I am still on it.
Ayana Mathis
#52. He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, I hate it when God is mean!
Donald McCaig
#53. To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
Frederick Douglass
#54. Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly
Al Purdy
#55. All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.
Clive Barker
#56. I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing
Francine Rivers
#57. Know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful ...
... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
Robinson Jeffers
#58. Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
John Milton
#59. She made up prayers and said them,
Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,
Her customary magic, which would cover
The white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud.
Ovid
#60. You're going to get me dirty." His eyes darken a shade. "Already have, baby.
Belle Aurora
#61. I already know the first. I killed Darken Rahl with the first. It states that people can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it's true.
Anonymous
#62. When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it.
Rolf Harris
#63. I have had days stare back at me as if to say, let's see who will darken first.
William Olsen
#64. A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
#65. when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life
Leon Wurmser
#66. It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.
Elif Shafak
#67. Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.
Charles Kingsley
#68. The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us
when we stop, we darken.
Jan Karon
#69. As the morning sun rises bringing needed light to our world ... let me worship you Lord and as the moon illuminates the darken night skies ... let me sing a praise of your greatness!
Timothy Pina
#70. I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
L. Ron Hubbard
#71. Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
Maya Angelou
#72. I watch the white stars darken;
the day comes and the
white stars dim
and lessen
and the lights fade in the city.
H.D.
#73. Every time you start a new job, you're starting from the beginning again and it's terrifying. And you feel like you're going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.
Emily Mortimer
#74. He was not a man to hide his emotions and if tested, his blue eyes would darken, gleaming like unfathomable gems.
Teresa Medeiros
#75. Lighting your candle in a darken world ... always helps brighten humanity.
Timothy Pina
#76. Nobody ever recognizes me from 'Mad Men,' because they darken my hair a little bit.
Anne Dudek
#77. I hate set dissertations,
and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.
Laurence Sterne
#78. [To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!
Beatrice Lillie
#79. The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken.
Peter Stalker
#80. How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.
Louis Sullivan
#81. The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
Augustine Of Hippo
#83. Wesley Rush was the most disgusting womanizing playboy to ever darken the doorstep of Hamilton High ... but he was kind of hot. Maybe if you could put him on mute ... and cut off his hands ... maybe - just maybe - he'd be tolerable then. Otherwise, he was a real piece of shit. Horn dog shit.
Kody Keplinger
#84. Day and Night
The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Idries Shah
#85. You're the very spawn of Satan and I'll not have you darken this door ever again.
Kady Cross
#86. A person should always think before they speak ... especially words that will hurt & destroy. Once you have spewed words of harm out into the universe ... you can never retrieve them. Always try to use your words to better brighten humanity ... not to further darken it.
Timothy Pina
#87. Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.
Clarice Lispector
#88. The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
Guy Finley
#89. Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Martin Luther
#90. One of the most powerful and prophetic analysts was Karl Marx. He showed how work can alienate a person from their nature and potential. Certain work can dull and darken human presence ... the linear mind can miss its gift ... Perception is crucial to understanding.
John O'Donohue
#91. And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34)
Edward Abbey
#92. Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.
L.M. Montgomery
#93. The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.
Edward Gibbon
#94. Our world must always keep hope in their hearts for a better change. As long as you have life, you have the hope to change darken nights into brighter days. Learn from mistakes of yesterday, live for dreams today,
hope for a brighter tomorrow!
Timothy Pina
#95. I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.
Robert E.Lee
#96. Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul is happiest when the worst possible thing in your life has come to pass. Because there is nothing left to hold on to, and fear grows wings to fly.
Baylie Karperien
#97. His eyes darken and his voice drops to a firm, husky tone.I can always tie you to the bed and make it so you can't go anywhere.
Jessica Sorensen
#98. When Love and Life first meet, a radiant thing is born, without a shade. When the roads begin to roughen, when the shades begin to darken, when the days are hard, and the nights cold and long - then it begins to change.
Olive Schreiner
#99. The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.
Bruce Crown
#100. The city does sleep, the windows darken and the streets vacate. New York dreams us. Wild, somnambulistic creatures, we move unhurried toward our own disappearance at dawn.
Stephanie Danler
