Quotes of: Dark-ages Keyword

In many areas of life, freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, the liberating restrictions. Those that fit with the reality of our nature and the world produce greater power and scope for our abilities and a deep...

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spanish shawl on your shoulders, A red rose in your hair. "Beauty is simple," they will tell you — Clumsily with a motley shawl You will cover a child up, A red rose on the fl...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon...

The Sacrament of the Goddess

I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from th...

Mein Kampf

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their best behavior, raise their arms and spread their legs for the police without complaint, stay in failing schoo...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

And don't succumb too much to the spell of these cases. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but on an entire forest.' 'Ma...

The Name of the Rose

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walk...

Old Age of El Magnifico

I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or stay at home -- they were generally happy, and generally felt that their children were happy too. Whereas those whose natural inclina...

Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him ...

Present Age & Of the Difference Between a Genius & an Apostle

A man may be ‘dated’ in the sense that the forms, the set-up, the paraphernalia, whereby he expresses the matter of permanent interest, are those of a particular age. In that sense the greatest writers are often the most dated. No one is more unm...

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade ...

Robert Penn Warren

[last lines] Traudl Junge: All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I as...

Downfall

In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name. But now is black beauty’s successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame. For since each hand hath put on nature’s pow'r, Fairing the foul with art...

William Shakespeare

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

Captive in the Dark

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

A Child Called "It"

Dark night of the soul,” said Jesus, “Happens to everybody sooner or later.

Coaltown Jesus

Someone should have warned me about love's dark underbelly, about the rejection and despair.

The Collector

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

Cider With Rosie

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

The Cannibal Within

Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.

The City in Which I Love You

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

Dark Heart: Angels in the City