A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. (Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia") >> More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotations...
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood. (Marquis De Sade) >> More Marquis De Sade Quotations...
I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares. (William Morris) >> More William Morris Quotations...
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. (Emily Greene Balch) >> More Emily Greene Balch Quotations...
There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure a headache darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations. (William Dean Howells) >> More William Dean Howells Quotations...
Love is the tyrant of the heart it darkens Reason, confounds discretion deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. (John Ford) >> More John Ford Quotations...