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"Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness."
"I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do."
"I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?"
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"
"I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me."
"Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving."
"There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs."
"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose."
"When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness."
"I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed."
"Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world."
"stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands."
"It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before."
"When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities."
"We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves."
"In the films I've done recently, I've been learning a little more about the side of myself that enjoys being a light. I remember when I used to dress in all black and you'd say. "Just be pretty, hold your head up, be proud. Be a pleasant person and don't cover yourself so much with darkness, your need to be a little crazy." Now I have nothing against anything I've been in before, because I love all sides of me, but I have been experimenting more with that lovely woman side. In this age of feminism, I would hate for the whole gentlemen and ladies things to be lost."
"I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me."
"The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you."
"You'll never find light by analyzing the darkness."
"May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves."
