Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.
—Carl Jung
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.… Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.
—Gail Godwin
Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.
—Kelly Robinson
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
—Pema Chödrön
Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you're meeting and every experience that you're having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.
—Robert Schumann
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
—Hodding Carter
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could.
—Carrie Fisher
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
—Evita Peron
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
—Dave Pelzer in A Child Called "It"
I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you'll have one of joy too.
—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World