#darkness

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost. ↗

— Toba Beta

#darkness #imagination #knowledge #navigation #spirit

Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#imagination #home

When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest. ↗

— Louise Philippe

#inspiration #stars #inspirational

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56) ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#inspirational #light #poetry #inspirational

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#inspirational #philosophical-reflection #inspirational

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#life #life

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #life

Photo is confined to borders by all side, but memory zeal out to extend happiness even to the darkest corner of your life. a good snapshot bring out colour in your life. ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#darkness #memory #photo #zeal #life

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all. ↗

— James Michael Pratt

#light #shadows #life

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#darkness #gift #love #love