“Don’t be afraid, the darkness you’re in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you’ve never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn’t frighten you…my dear…you have to learn to live with the dar…”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”— Jorge Luis Borges, www-ccs.cs.umass.edu
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.’”— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com
“Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I’ve always liked moonless nights best. It’s easier to say things in the dark. It’s easier to be yourself.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“When she was alone by herself she clenched her fists together, and began beating the back of a chair with them. She was like a wounded animal. She hated death; she was furious, outraged, indignant with death, as if it were a living creature. She would not submit to dark and nothingness. She began to…”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”— Alice Hoffman, amazon.com
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”— David Whyte, amazon.com