Famous quotes containing the words dark age, dark, age and/or book:
“—All this Dark Age machinery
On which we had tormented you
To life.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,
Relieve my languish, and restore the light,
With dark forgetting of my cares return.”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)