#darkness

There is no darkness but ignorance. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ignorance

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#darkness #france #got #hate #known

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#flooding #light #study #you

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#another #beatles #bed #best #cry

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#believe #condition #course #darkness #deal

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#anger #bellies #challenge #darkness #down

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ↗

— Mark Twain

#human-nature #moon #nature

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#darkness #informs #inspires #into #line

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#built #civil #civil war #darkness #facing

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#darkness #deep #generate #i #i can