Ink Dark Moon Quotes & Sayings

An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly lines of woody swales. One might imagine that little is to be seen from a plane at night, but above the clouds the Milky Way is a dense, blazing arch. A full moon often lights the planet freshly, and patterns of human culture, artificially lit, are striking in ways not visible in daylight. One evening I saw the distinctive glows of cities around Delhi diffused like spiral galaxies in a continuous deck of stratus clouds far below us. In Algeria and on the Asian steppes, wind-whipped pennants of gas flared. The jungle burned in incandescent spots in Malaysia and Brazil. One clear evening at 20,000 feet over Manhattan, I could see, it seemed, every streetlight halfway to the end of Long Island. A summer lightning bolt unexpectedly revealed thousands of bright dots on the ink-black veld of the northern Transvaal: sheep. — Barry Lopez

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green — Robert Herrick

We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy. — Nicolae Ceausescu

I think middle age begins once you start looking forward to eating dinner before six thirty, or when you call the cops when your next-door neighbor has a party. — Amy Poehler

We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Her feelings as dark as the night sky, the moon was the only thing making her come alive
So she got some paper and pen to let the ink spill it all out because talking never seemed to work.
Blood drops fell on her little piece of paper, drowning it along with her. By the time the blood dried up it left her with nothing but red dust. Red. The same color her eyes were captivated by.
They never told her that there is no way to get over crazy, messy things in life. There's only crossing that red sea as if you're walking through the wilderniss. The sun will rise when you've gone through the depts of it all. Writing wont matter anymore. Don't you understand? You're life is not messy little girl, you're just crazy sometimes. — N

It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually. — Sarah Dessen

Turn off the light!

Who?

Not me,

but you! — Kim Da-Jeong

It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell. — Deyth Banger

There was the world of the sick and dying and the world of the hale. The healthy and hale did not want to know anything about the sick and dying. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

In a world of bosses, you are your own master — John Grogan

I have a feeling I'll only ever properly make sense in bed, on my back. You would understand what I meant if we were there. — Caitlin Moran

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine. — Victoria Alexander

Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now. — James Lee Burke

Across the moon-pale scar that marred my forearm, Darian danced in dark ink, the gracefully curving edges of his name unravelling into a spill of colour as joyful and haphazard as the promise of stars. — Alexis Hall