#darkness

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano. These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

#darkness #earth #evil #fasola #malice

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#darkness-at-noon #liberty #politics #soviet-union #freedom

You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter what move you make. If my grandmother and Marissa died tonight, it would be because I had stayed in the darkness too long, flirting with the idea of being Cedric's consigliere. If that happened, I could never live with myself- but if Cedric gave me the bite as he planned, I would be forced to live with it forever. That was the worst hell I could imagine. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#imagine #light #traitor #imagination

Many people believe they know true darkness, but until it has been experienced it cannot be imagined. Without even a flicker of light, the mind begins to play tricks. There is a constant feeling that there is a wall before you, that you must stop. The eyes open as wide as they can, hungry for light. The only thing that helps is to shut them tight. ↗

— Joseph Lallo

#fear #hiding #imagination

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

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#creativity #darkness #human #human life #itself

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life-lessons #nurture #personal #sunday #world

After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done. ↗

— Ani San

#depression #heartbroken #life #pain #life