#darkness

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#horror #house-of-leaves #insightful #insight

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#misattributed #darkness

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ↗

— Anne Frank

#darkness #illumination #dark

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#resistance

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#rose

Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God. (17) ↗

— Stephen Cope

#darkness #god #light #silence #transformation

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#creative #darkness #decide #destructive #every

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#safety #safety

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness. ↗

— Victoria Michaels

#darkness #light #sunshine #advertising