- Feed http://quotationsbook.com Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9613/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9613/ <![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/108/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/108/ <![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10038/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10038/ <![CDATA[The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23891/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23891/ <![CDATA[We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39876/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39876/ <![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31356/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31356/ <![CDATA[With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30810/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30810/ <![CDATA[We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13786/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13786/ <![CDATA[The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9146/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9146/ <![CDATA[Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14693/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14693/