#darkness

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness. ↗

— Landon Parham

#hope #inspirational #life #light #inspirational

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#fear #inadequacy #inspirational #light #powerful

When the demons start coming out— that's when you're nearing the light! It's hard for cockroaches to stay put without all the shadows. So in that case, keep on going! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#demons #heading-towards-the-light #inspirational-quotes #keep-on-going #wisdom-quotes

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. ↗

— May Sarton

#birth #comes #darkness #ever #faithful

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#artist #darkness #duty #hearts #into

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. ↗

— George Fox

#darkness #death #flowed #i #infinite

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ↗

— Robert Redford

#classic #darkness #discovery #falling #gift

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#am #birds #close #come #darkness