Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
Murasaki ShikibuTag: reality dreams darkness appearance
A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.
William StyronTag: darkness suicide depression
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
Wilfred OwenTag: soul sorrow darkness warfare death-and-dying bronze
You're not like other Wasps."
"Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score."
"A few," Salma allowed.
"Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken.
Tag: war darkness ignorance hurt birthright aagen aagen-s-joy grief-in-chains here-comes-the-sun kinden salme-dien wasp-empire wine-bowl
Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
R. Scott BakkerTom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light.
N.D. WilsonHow terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
Stefan ZweigTag: darkness beautiful terrible bewildering
What makes night within us may leave stars.
Victor HugoEmily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to.
Jude MorganTag: imagination darkness
The truth is in the heart;
out there is true darkness.
Tag: life truth heart darkness secret true
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