“And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.”

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.

Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

All things human change.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Silence, beautiful voice.

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.

I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

She has one hell of a dark soul, but damn, it’s so full of light.

He wasn’t like a moth attracted to her flame. He was like a vampire in love with her eternal darkness.

Your darkness is hauntingly beautiful. Mesmerizing.

I do not trust anyone who hides in the light and denies darkness exists.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Dark comedy helped me survive.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.