Dark Age Quotes

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”
― Richard Lederer, Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language

“You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Hope is an opiate, not a plan.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“We all want to be special. It must ache to discover you are not.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Matter, how tiny my share.
Time, how brief my allotment.
Fate, how small my roll to play.
Self, All that can be mastered.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.”
― Carl Sagan

“You don't get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through it's teeth.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“A man may run, but none has escaped his fate. Yet.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“It has been years since I've ridden a horse, and in all of human history, how many have graced the back of such a terrible prize as this? I fear disgracing this king of horses more than I do the coming violence.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won't be the mirror they break.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I've spend enough time in the past, love. The dead need no tears. They don't rest easier for our vengeance, or our guilt. They'd want us to live. And life's about the now and the future, eh?”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Revolving Door of Life

“When a dark age comes, hold the light inside.”
― Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

“I confess, I hope she does not hurry. It is good to be alone in the snow.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“It was then that I realized sensibility is torpor by a more palatable name”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The more blessed the creature, the less they question life”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The dark age is never without education but lacking enlightenment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My mother taught me how to blockade a planet with nothing but asteroids and gravity haulers." -Victra au Barca (née Victra au Julii)”
― Pierce Brown

“In attempting to become more civilized, we enter the Middle Ages.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“… the sound that has plagued my dreams from the Palatine to the Belt finds me in the desert wastes. The sound could only come from a legion escorting the Reaper. The howling of wolves.”
― Pierce Brown