How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I am to be whole.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
I do not believe this darkness will endure.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
It doesn’t matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.
For the night is dark and full of terrors.
Hope begins in the dark.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I’ve accepted it. We’re old friends.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.
Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.