Darcey Quotes & Sayings

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed. — Michelle Shocked

Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions. — Darcey Steinke

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been? — Darcey Steinke

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want. — Darcey Steinke

Each time we explore Bach's music we feel as if we have traveled great distances to, and through, a remote but entrancing soundscape — John Eliot Gardiner

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are. — Darcey Steinke

I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people. — Brendan Gleeson

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig Von Mises

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail. — Darcey Bussell

And what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy — E. E. Cummings

Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky. — Darcey Steinke

For awhile, staring at my paper bag of clothes, my freaked-out eyes in the mirror behind the bar, I convinced myself I would go back to Bell. He was the only man that ever made me feel in life instead of just a spectator, and if he did that by fear and pain, it was still better then when I looked numbly at some man on the couch thinking, I will leave you soon. — Darcey Steinke

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything. — Darcey Steinke

I know the girl is right because the snake is in me, knotted around my intestines, hanging off my ribs, snuggled like a lover around my black heart. "I love you," I said, addressing the snake, Madison, Bell, Kevin, Pig, my mother, my past lives and the new lover speeding toward me at this very moment. I wondered if it mattered whether you loved one person or another. Weren't lovers interchangeable when you thought back about them? Maybe that was true in the future too. What I really loved was the note. I always loved odd things: the blue curacao bottle, the wet asphalt, my own insipid fear. — Darcey Steinke

We are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility. — John O'Donohue

Blake turned to Livia. We were never formally introduced. When your father sees me at the train station from his patrol car, he often stops by later in the day with a bagged meal that he refuses to let me turn down. You, Livia, inherit your generous nature from him. — Debra Anastasia

I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person. — Darcey Steinke

A man who wears his heart on his sleeve is a rarity, yet often underappreciated. — Mir Waiss Najibi

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them. — Darcey Steinke

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell

Never praise oneself. — Bhagwan Swaminarayan

What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers? — Darcey Steinke

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that. — Darcey Steinke

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. — Darcey Bussell

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray. — Edward Lear

Other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know. — Darcey Steinke

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself. — Darcey Steinke

The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky. — E. Urner Goodman

As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once
that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it. — Alice Sebold

When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you. — Darcey Steinke

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms — Kamila Shamsie

Being a mother has made my life complete. — Darcey Bussell

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too. — Darcey Steinke

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible. — Darcey Steinke

But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence of grief, half the people we pass on the street would light up like Christmas trees. I — Darcey Bell

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough. — Darcey Steinke

Life was a hard teacher, but a thorough one. — Karen Hawkins

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy. — Darcey Steinke

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing. — Darcey Steinke