#darkness

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#candle #curse #darkness #light #than

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#each #light #like #other #pain

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#darkness #develops #like #photograph

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#darkness #derived #god #hypothesis #immediate

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze. "I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing...but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#darkness #sneaking #sneaking-out #diet

I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown. ↗

— Diet Eman

#darkness #hysteria #mind-power #paralysis #psychology

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#dreams #life #sadness #dreams

Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#darkness #hatred #naruto #revenge #taken

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#death #light #death

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#cannot #darkness #drive #hate #light