Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it.
Hades wandered across the fields with him, Kerberos limping along at his side. “No one wants the god of death at their fertility festival.”
“Sure they do. I’ve heard plenty of girls sighing over your tasty darkness.”
“Tasty darkness. Really.
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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength.
Leo TolstoyTags: death despair darkness dying
Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.
Ankita SinghalTags: life darkness dark-humor coffee coffee-humor coffee-lovers energy-of-the-universe
When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: certainty death faith darkness trust ignorance spirituality order
There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head.
Marisha PesslTags: imagination reality freedom darkness make-believe
Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWaltTags: wisdom inspirational spiritual grace darkness light illumination
I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.
Jaeda DeWaltTags: darkness light dichotomy illumination
I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWaltTags: wisdom life inspirational darkness light shadow-self depth illumination wise-words dimension
Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.
Nicholas TrandahlTags: beauty sorrow darkness edgar-allan-poe
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
Morris L. WestTags: life inspirational doubt poetic courage darkness risk knowing living-life-to-the-fullest
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