Dark Water Quotes:

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Art, Philosophy, Dark Water

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

- George Eliot

topic: Fall, Dark, Men, Momentary, Dark Water

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

- Charles Bukowski

source: Charles Bukowski (2002). “Il grande”, p.260, Feltrinelli Editore

topic: Dark Water

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

- Egon Schiele

source: Reinhard A. Steiner, Egon Schiele (1993). “Egon Schiele 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist”, Taschen

topic: Dark, Wind, Water, Dark Water

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Dark, Reflection, Dark Water

In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Dream, Wall, Fall, Interbeing, Dark Water

As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall.

- Jennifer Weiner

topic: Dream, Fall, Sleep, Dark Water

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

- Christopher Camuto

source: Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

topic: Spiritual, Dark, Rivers, Spinal Cord, Dark Water

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Dark, Reflection, Moon, Dark Water, Divine Right

She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Kings, Dark Water, Bogs

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Dark, Sight, Bridges, Piers, Dark Water

A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Wise, Book, Dark, Lighthouse, Water Of Life

It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most of the blame lies on man's inclination to tune into the noise that blares all around him instead of the beautiful silence that lies deep within.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Dark, Dark Water

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

- Li-Young Lee

source: Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.15, BOA Editions, Ltd.

topic: Fathers Day, Prayer, Dark, Dark Water, Lovely Face

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

- Jennifer Connelly

topic: Dark, Water, Motorcycle, Dark Water

But they love each other," Clary said, appalled. "Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?" Luke looked toward the river, at the dark water moving slowly under the light of the autumn moon. "Sometimes, Clary," he said, "love just isn't enough.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Moving, Mean, Dark, Love Means, Dark Water

What I love is when I'm in the theater with audiences and I hear them laugh. That's such a relief to me. They're going on the ride and they're allowing themselves to enjoy it, even though we're traversing some dark waters.

- Francesca Gregorini

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dark, Love Is, Water, Dark Water

As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death.

- Joe Queenan

source: "A whiter shade of guile" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2007.

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Fun, Dark Water, Pollock

A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

- Richard Brautigan

topic: Beautiful, Dark, Water, Carnivals, Ferris Wheels