#darkness

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ↗

— Mark Twain

#human-nature #moon #nature

I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness. ↗

— David Bromstad

#any #black #ceiling #color #dark

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. ↗

— Horace

#darkness #discover #door #must #myriads

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. ↗

— John Hurt

#character #course #darkness #dimension #else

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. ↗

— Carl Jung

#along #balanced #better #cannot #come

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. ↗

— Carl Jung

#darkness #dealing #knowing #method #other

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #darkness #discern #existence #far

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. ↗

— Carl Jung

#cope #cure #darkness #definite #does

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#buried #community #darkness #deep #fact

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ↗

— Morris West

#acceptance #always #apt #condition #conflict