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Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company. -- Austin Osman Spare
Never darken my Dior again! -- Beatrice Lillie
Go, and never darken my towels again. -- Groucho Marx
Go, and never darken my towels again -- Groucho Marx
The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. -- John Milton
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. -- Plutarch
The weather in England can really darken your spirits. -- Claire Forlani
The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken. -- Rabindranath Tagore
[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again! -- Beatrice Lillie
All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night -- Clive Barker
All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. -- Clive Barker
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! -- Logan Pearsall Smith
And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods. -- Robert Frost
As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore. -- Christina Rossetti
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. -- Jan Karon
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human. -- Denise Levertov
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. -- Edward Gibbon
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were. -- Timothy Keller
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. -- Eric Partridge
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing. -- Idries Shah
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Safak
She made up prayers and said them,Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,Her customary magic, which would coverThe white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud." -- Ovid
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. -- Walter Anderson
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
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
When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. -- Simon Van Booy
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. -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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