Quotes of: Dark-places Keyword

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

The Spanish Tragedy

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller. The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

The Storyteller

STOP setting your mind to see only the negative things in life. Place your settings on positive, then kick back and enjoy it for a while!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Someone Like You

If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Souls Cry

Dillan didn’t just kiss. He slow danced. We moved in sync. I wanted to lose myself in him. In his touch. Right then the world seemed like such a perfect place.

Til Death

The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

The Tokyo-Montana Express

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

The Truth About Forever

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

The Thought Gang

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn’t exactly place in a very disturbing way. These were not his memories.

Origins

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

while the framers of the United States Constitution were ashamed of slavery and used euphemisms in place of the term "slave", the authors of the Confederate Constitution proudly used the term no less than ten times.

The Philosophy of the Confederate Constitution

...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

Peaceable Psychology, A: Christian Therapy in a World of Many Cultures

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.

Parade's End

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well," the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...

Paved with Good Intentions

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

Philosophical Investigations

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

The Pieces We Keep