Famous quotes containing the words dark age, dark, age and/or book:
“They have slapped into the American mind more human misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“And a dark shift within the bone
Brings him the end he could not find.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust,
Who in the dark and silent grave
When we have wandered all our ways
Shuts up the story of our days.
And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up I trust.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)