#darkness

In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky, That circle 'round a gleaming eye, Turning darkness all away, Even depths will know their day, For every shadow has its end, In light! Life will return again! ↗

— Robert Fanney

#eye #life #light #luthiel #magic

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#depression #panic #life

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#metaphor #poetry #wisdom #love

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself. ↗

— Tana French

#fear #heart #love

Holy shit! Can we say unstable? Was I the only sane one around here? Well, I guess that really wasn’t setting the standard very high." -Ember, Darkness Of Light ↗

— Stacey Marie Brown

#demons #fae #funny-quotes #paranormal-romance #quotes-i-love

I love the smell of lip balm in the morning ↗

— Jem Wilton

#love

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#depression #grief #sadness #tear #nature

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 Styron

#depression #suicide #observation

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gift #light #darkness

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#misattributed #darkness