#darkness

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole ↗

— C.G. Jung

#inspiration #life #psychology #shadow #whole

where there is never sunshine darkness isn't a scary thing ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#fear #inspiration #inspirational

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#fear #inadequacy #inspirational #light #powerful

When the demons start coming out— that's when you're nearing the light! It's hard for cockroaches to stay put without all the shadows. So in that case, keep on going! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#demons #heading-towards-the-light #inspirational-quotes #keep-on-going #wisdom-quotes

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#artist #darkness #duty #hearts #into

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

#darkness #else #everything #flash #gone

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. ↗

— George Fox

#darkness #death #flowed #i #infinite

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. ↗

— Janet Frame

#darkness #direction #down #fact #first

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. ↗

— Jean Paul

#darkness #death #dying #evening #like