#dark

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die? Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity. ↗

— Stephen King

#metaphors #defeat

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#education #light #movement

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about. ↗

— Sonia Braga

#bright #bring #characters #dark #dreams

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#go #our #project #really #tend

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#about #ago #asked #attitude #blond

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brightest #darkest #days #do not judge #find

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#come #dark #dawn #do the right thing #give

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#being happy #chosen #dark #dark side #enough

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#bowled #bowling #cricket #dark #down

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#dark side #deny #more #more power #over