#dark

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not. ↗

— Henry Alford

#bright #dark #delight #hopes #i

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

#although #am #attitude #darken #happening

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#between #dark #fear #happen #hard

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since. ↗

— Joan Bennett

#dark #ever #hair #i #much

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone. ↗

— Paul Celan

#hard #heart #hid #philosopher #still

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. ↗

— Gary Busey

#develops #devil #fear #his #negatives

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#been #dark #friend #geek #guy

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#artist #darkness #duty #hearts #into