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A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question. -- Susan Piver
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick. -- Eckhart Tolle
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. -- John of the Cross
Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. -- Lloyd John Ogilvie
Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. -- Gary Allan
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. -- N. Scott Momaday
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light. -- John of the Cross
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. -- Christopher Hitchens
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. -- Phillips Brooks
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched. -- Juliet Marillier
There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. -- Tupac Shakur
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. -- Louis Kronenberger
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew. -- Louis Aragon
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. -- Charles Dickens
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! -- Frederick Douglass
The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. -- Ram Dass
The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone. -- Barry Manilow
It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life. -- R. C. Sproul
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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night... -- Sun Tzu
The streets were dark with something more then night. -- Raymond Chandler
The streets were dark with something more than night. -- Raymond Chandler
For the night is dark and full of terrors. -- George R. R. Martin
In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness. -- Rajneesh
It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy -- Charles M. Schulz
For every dark night, there is a brighter day. -- Harriet Morgan
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. -- Hernando Cortes
Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. -- Tupac Shakur
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. -- Hernando Cortes
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. -- Horace
The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. -- Joseph Campbell
God is a dark night to man in this life. -- John of the Cross
For every single dark night there is a brighter day. -- Tupac Shakur
It was another dark and windy night. Like so many others. -- Lisa Williamson
I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark. -- Serge Gainsbourg
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. -- Stephenie Meyer
Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark -- Tom Robbins
All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark. -- Gayle Forman
I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate. -- Bobby Fischer
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. -- Haruki Murakami
No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew. -- Lulu
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. -- George William Russell
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. -- John Milton
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness. -- Louis Zamperini
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. -- John Brown
Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq. -- John F. Kerry
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. -- Bill Bryson
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An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night. -- Anne Frank
Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk. -- David Letterman
To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul. -- Tori Amos
The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light. -- Gu Cheng
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. -- Chet Raymo
Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I walk these lonely streets at dark. Just me and the night; crowded head, empty heart. -- John Mark Green
This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. -- J. K. Rowling
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. -- Tim Winton
There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead. -- Eva Hart
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark -- Countee Cullen
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn. -- Steve Goodier
You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. -- Sam Keen
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. -- Sun Tzu
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. -- Charles M. Schulz
Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood. -- Isaac Marion
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. -- David Matthews
Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. -- Robert W. Service
His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. -- George R. R. Martin
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light. -- Jim Steinman
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. -- John Cheever
...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up. -- Markus Zusak
I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us. -- John J. Geddes
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. -- B. Alan Wallace
Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. -- Marina Oswald
If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. -- Joe Frazier
Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky. -- Jo Brand
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one. -- Karen Marie Moning
Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul. -- Robert A. Johnson
I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself. -- H. Beam Piper
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something. -- James Franco
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting. -- H. L. Mencken
How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue? -- Susan Abulhawa
His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night... -- Cassandra Clare
I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself. -- Patrick Rothfuss
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness. -- Henry James
Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality. -- James Ellis
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. -- Jim Thompson
Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people. -- Mariel Hemingway
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another. -- Catherine Doherty
You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark. -- Elvis Presley
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. -- John Milton
When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever. -- Giles Andreae
As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You. -- Sara Groves
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... -- John Milton
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. -- Charles Simic
Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each. -- Johnathan Jena
The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. -- Victoria Kahler
the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered. -- Anna Leonowens
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them. -- Benjamin Carson
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. -- Jean Baudrillard
That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ... -- Daniel Handler
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life. -- Charles Bukowski
On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light. -- Nick Gordon
I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits. -- Jerry Spinelli
Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight. -- J. K. Rowling
There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night. -- Arthur Lynch
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. -- Daniel J. Rice
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special. -- James Bovard
It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile. -- Anusha Atukorala
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. -- Victor Hugo
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. -- Edgar Allan Poe

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