“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!” MenWayWantUseHomeBeautifulChurchDarkWalksRaceDarknessFiveMinutesPaintFlatsRomeFive Minutes Author:Taiye Selasi
“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.” MenHomeAgeGirlSpaceRoomsBoysDarknessAirDiseasePrisonSmellBoy And GirlHome HomeSmall Rooms Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.” MenHomeLightJoyNightHateDarknessDoorsOughtAll ThingsCrossesWindowI HateMurderSunshineRaysCheerfulnessJoy Of LifeRays Of Light Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.” PeopleMenWayHeartStatesHomeAgeLyingSufferingHumanityDarkForgetUnitedDealsGriefDarknessUnited StatesReturnLessonsSoldierBetrayalGreat MenAsiaLiberatedDark PlacesSoutheast AsiaReturning Home Author:Larry Heinemann
“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.” MenWorldWantBelieveWarStoriesHomeFacesNamesBeliefChristDarknessColdDemandDespairGunIdealsEarsSickEnglandDon't BelievePainfulSmellWoundsNoiseSmokeDirtyBombsBelieve In GodBloodyFoulShatteredFilthInfallibilityLiceDirty World Author:Evadne Price