Long Dark Road Quotes

#1. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by

Hanshan

#2. The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.

John Steinbeck

#3. Let us be patient with one another,
And even patient with ourselves.
We have a long, long way to go.
So let us hasten along the road,
The road of human tenderness and generosity.
Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.

Emily Greene Balch

#4. People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

Jack Ma

#5. The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.

Richard Flanagan

#6. I don't remember a voice
On a dark, lonesome road
When I started this journey so long ago
I was only just trying to outrun the noise
There was never a question of having a choice

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#7. The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

Robert Jordan

#8. I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#9. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. Information is power, and power is money.

Kennedy Chase

#11. Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

Guillermo Del Toro

#12. Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Clint Eastwood

#13. Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.

Erin Bow

#14. The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head.

Daniel Wallace

#15. You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.

Jeanne Ray

#16. Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

Lauren DeStefano

#17. A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#18. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

George Gordon Byron

#19. How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

Neil Gaiman

#20. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

Anatole France