"The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed uprooted- We shall not feel it again. We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise & the lovely"

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."

"Darkness feeds on apathy."

"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."

"This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest."

"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"

"I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach"

"The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement."

"The world is certainty a sudden place."

"Nothing had really changed....The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world"

"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."

"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."

"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."

"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"Any colour - so long as it's black."

"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part."