Dark Mode Quotes

With an obscure hesitation one steps into the day and its frame and its costume. Between the puzzlement and its summary abandonment, between the folds of waking consciousness and their subsequent limitation, is a possible city. Solitude, hotels, aging, love, hormones, alcohol, illness – these drifting experiences open it a little. Sometimes prolonged reading holds it ajar. Another's style of consciousness inflects one's own; an odd syntactic manner, a texture of embellishment, pause. A new mode of rest. I can feel physiologically haunted by a style. It's why I read ideally, for the structured liberation from the personal, yet the impersonal inflection can persist outside the text, beyond the passion of readerly empathy, a most satisfying transgression that arrives only inadvertently, never by force of intention. As if seized by a fateful kinship, against all the odds of sociology, the reader psychically assumes the cadence of the text. She sheds herself. This description tends towards a psychological interpretation of linguistics, but the experience is also spatial. I used to drive home from my lover's apartment at 2 a.m., 3 a.m. This was Vancouver in 1995. A zone of light-industrial neglect separated our two neighbourhoods. Between them the stretched-out city felt abandoned. My residual excitement and relaxation would extend outwards from my body and the speeding car, towards the dilapidated warehouses, the shut storefronts, the distant container yards, the dark exercise stu ~ Lisa Robertson

Ozzie Boone ... insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow.
By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries. ~ Dean Koontz

Madge, her eldest sister, looked about forty, rather than thirty two. Her black dress drained her of colour; her shoulders had adopted their perpetual hunched position, which she had adopted to compensate for her height. As a child Madge had towered over her peers, stopping only when she reached five foot eleven. Lesley knew, without seeing them, that she would be wearing the usual flat shoes, the only footwear she would allow anywhere near her size eight feet. Sitting beside Madge, Pamela, her youngest sister, blonde hair flowing over her shoulders, was thankfully dressed fairly decorously in a black coat over a black pinstripe tunic dress with a high neckline. Remembering Pamela's usual mode of dress, Lesley could only deduce that their mother must have prevailed upon her this time, in deference to the occasion. To her left Alan, at twenty four, the baby of the family, was talking in low tones to his girlfriend Erica, his fair hair and her dark locks forming a striking contrast. From Erica's expression however, she guessed that Alan was currently on the receiving end of her infamous (and often malicious) acerbic wit.


~ Phyl Wright

But the final price of freedom is the willingness to face that most frightening of all beings, one's own self. Starlight vision, the "other way of knowing," is the mode of perception of the unconscious, rather than the conscious mind. The depths of our own beings are not all sunlit; to see clearly, we must be willing to dive into the dark, inner abyss and acknowledge the creatures we may find there. For, as Jungian analyst M. Esther Harding explains in Woman's Mysteries, "These subjective factors ... are potent psychical entities, they belong to the totality of our being, they cannot be destroyed. So long as they are unrecognized outcasts from our conscious life, they will come between us and all the objects we view, and our whole world will be either distorted or illuminated. ~ Starhawk

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times. ~ Malin Akerman

The march is a way to get in celebration mode. ~ Charles Richards

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode. ~ Damien Chazelle

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace. ~ James Gleick

I'm not usually in a talkative mode. ~ Chris Cornell

Like Americans, the Japanese have a silent mode, but in Japan it can be referred to as "manner mode" (Japanese Cell Phone Culture, n.d.). ~ Trevor Clinger

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment. ~ Charlie Worsham

When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can. ~ Natassia Malthe

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode. ~ Hannibal Buress

I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you're modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you're a jerk. ~ Jesse Andrews

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown. ~ Natalie Maines

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode. ~ John Cleese

Where's Quinn?'
"He went around the other side." Connor replied. Stealth mode."
A war whoop and a mocking laugh belied that comment.
Hunter sighed. 'He's across the street, being a lunatic, you mean.'
"That's stealth mode for him. ~ Alyxandra Harvey

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode. ~ John Andre

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed. ~ Deeksha Mittal

During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode. ~ Ernie Els

The Market is thus not a magician, but simply the explanation of a mode of production, a mode where labor is the merchandise, a mode where the highest-bidding worker is the one who works the most, meaning the longest, in order to earn the least, and to allow the owner of the means of production to earn even more! (50) ~ Ronan De Calan

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue. ~ William Godwin

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. ~ Ezra Pound

IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode. ~ Pearl Zhu

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there. ~ Robin Wasserman

My worlds on a Girl
Mohi Uddin


A girl,
May be your good friend...
Can be a enemy...
Also be a fool...
And can also be a lovely sweetheart...
Even be a cute sister...
But all of those depends on your behavior with her...
So always try to be a good behavior with a Girl. ~ Answers Mode

She attempted to deal with her terror in a most ineffective and magical mode-a mode that I have seen many patients use: she attempted to elude death by refusing to live. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

We can use manual mode thinking to explicitly describe our automatic settings (Aristotle); we can use manual mode thinking to justify our automatic settings (Kant); and we can use manual mode thinking to transcend the limitations of our automatic settings (Bentham and Mill). ~ Joshua D. Greene

Humor is my default mode. ~ John Updike

Dark, that's the word. Dark hair strategically styled in at least a dozen conflicting directions. Dark brows and lashes, dark stubble, and hazel eyes pinning me with a piercing dark look. ~ Jewel E. Ann

Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode ~ Thomas Aquinas

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way. ~ Clay Matthews III

MISERABLE SCHOOLIE MODE DISENGAGED
EASTER HOLIDAYS MODE INITIALIZING...
COMMENCING CHOCOLATE-ANTICIPATION SQUEE IN
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SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! TWO WEEKS OF FREEEEEEEDOM!
OK, so actually more like two weeks of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEKDOM. ~ Susie Day

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved. ~ Loretta Swit

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. ~ Felix Frankfurter

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever. ~ David Crabb

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse. ~ Cornel West

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12 and it would have six versions and they were all better. ~ Rob Brown

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode. ~ Ludacris

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger. ~ Frederick Lenz

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. ~ Deepak Chopra

We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it. ~ John Cleese

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode. ~ Martin Gore

I'll leave it all behind until the dark takes me. ~ Jordan Hoechlin

Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance. ~ Jackie Evancho

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode
a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. ~ Christos Yannaras

Hunter pulled away, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, where are you going?" I murmured. "We're not done making up."
"We're in crisis mode out there," she answered, reluctantly taking another step back.
"It's always crisis mode in this house," I said with disgust."
"Chapter 24 ~ Alyxandra Harvey

Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you are in the dark in the dark or in the dark not in the dark, although the sun can go down so quickly that you may be in the in the dark about being in the dark, only to look around and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark, but in the dark in the dark nontheless, not only because of the dark, but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locked cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark, and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not in the dark about being in the dark, and so you may fall into the hole that the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the dark, and in the park. ~ Lemony Snicket

A little fight in you. I like that. ~ Heath Ledger

the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],
a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself"
*hegel ~ T.M. Knox

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small. ~ Dean Koontz

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. ~ Henry Mayhew

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. ~ Wendell Berry

Silly. Dark isn't scary. Dark is safe."
"Why?"
"I live in the dark all the time. But when it's dark outside everyone has to be there, too. And if you can't see someone, they can't see you, either."
She sniffles a few times. "So, it's like I'm hiding in the dark?"
"Yes. You're the secret when it's dark. Dark is safe. ~ Kiersten White

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. ~ Horace

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark. ~ Curtis Martin

Do Eastern religions meditate because it helps them to perceive reality as they consider it really is; that is, in monistic mode? Or do they see reality in monistic mode because they meditate? Similarly, do western religions emphasize such acts as prayer and worship because they help the believer to see the reality of the theistic mode? Or do they tend to see reality in a theistic way because of the activities of prayer and ritual worship? ~ Moojan Momen

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation. ~ Deepak Chopra

My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner. ~ Andrew Cormier

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ~ Sophocles

Humans had developed a sequential mode of awareness, while heptapods had developed a simultaneous mode of awareness. We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose. I ~ Ted Chiang

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age. ~ Mahmud Tarzi

Your Kindle will automatically go into sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity and a screensaver displays. This static screensaver uses no battery power. To put your Kindle in sleep mode, press and release the Power button. To wake up your Kindle, press and release the Power button. ~ Amazon

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ... Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. ~ Theodore Roethke

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. ~ John Jewel

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ... ~ Gertrude Himmelfarb

In cocoon mode you are tapping into deep Mariana Trench energy and the Universe is helping make your destiny a reality. Whenever you make a conscious and positive effort to improve yourself and feed into achieving what you deserve from life you will emerge from the cocoon and become the butterfly. ~ Dan Born

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. ~ Bob Ross

Death chose each of us - both Dark and Light - for a reason. There can't be Light without Dark or Dark without Light. ~ Donna Grant

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. ~ Cory Doctorow

You're all dark, dark, dark. And Jace and I are light. ~ Cassandra Clare

Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids. ~ Alison Moyet

Don't let the dark clouds of greed confuse you ~ Kevin O'Leary

I've never felt remorse before. It's disgusting. ~ Willow Madison

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well. ~ Annie Lennox

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features ~ Countee Cullen

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark. ~ Philip Levine

All comedy comes from a dark place. ~ Katt Williams

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler! ~ Sophie Thompson

Now in your inner mind, tell yourself, 'Every time I begin to worry, I will immediately think of something to be grateful for.' Repeat this enough times until you feel that your inner mind will automatically go into gratitude mode as soon as it's aware that it's in worry mode. ~ Zelig Pliskin

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm. ~ Henry Selick

For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival. ~ B.R. Ambedkar

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form. ~ Kami Garcia

His pleasure is my pleasure. ~ Pam Godwin, Dark Notes

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me. ~ Mark Lawrence

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be. ~ Martin Gore

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. ~ Robert Graves

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. ~ Matthew Shipp

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. ~ Neil Gaiman

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. ~ Dave Eggers

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best. ~ Jamie Babbit

I know what to do
with the dark. ~ Emily Skaja

I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play 'Dragon Age' for the wonder, story and exploration but wouldn't enjoy getting their butts handed to them. We do still have easy mode - it's not a pure story mode in that there's zero combat, but it's not super-challenging. ~ Marc Laidlaw

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it. ~ Dominic Riccitello

Come to the Dark Side.
We have chocolate. ~ Cheyenne McCray