“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.” WorldDifferentFeelingsNightGirlFightingDarkEmotionTreeCryPureCreaturesCatAgonyMaking LoveBack And Forth Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.” WorldWellsLongDoeSoulReasonWholeSeemsNightIndividualDarkAbilityEmotionHigherPeriodsRight NowSaintWhole WorldWitnessParadoxStomachDisturbingHideousDark NightDark Night Of The Soul Author:Flannery O'Connor
“I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.” ThinkingWayI CanMomentsUseDarkRaceEmotionFighterOlympicsQualifiedEvokeDark Moments Author:Kara Goucher
“I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.” PeopleTryingReasonDoneCharacterDarkEmotionReason Why Author:Michael Eklund
“Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.” ThinkingWayFactsFeelingsDarkEmotionStruggleDangerousSweetPersonalityHearingBitterPlacidMixed FeelingsMixed Emotions Author:Brian Eno
“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.” ThinkingWritingKindBookSelfFactsTogetherImaginationDarkEmotionAccountsRegardConclusionDesignerObscureCement Book:Works Source: Works