“When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.” PeopleMenYearsHumansAgeCertainIndividualLostNaturalDarkSinAirAtheismEvolutionThousandCapacityInstinctPositive AtheismBreathingGuidanceGentlemanSatResolutionThousand YearsDark AgesBlockedUnmarriedHuman Evolution Author:Elbert Hubbard
“Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayDoeIndividualSidesDarkWorstSurvivalGloryCommitmentAppreciateOneselfCaringTraumaDark SidePower Of LoveResiliency Author:Bessel van der Kolk
“I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.” MomentsIndividualDarkSense Of Humor Author:Alan Moore
“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
“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.” PeopleBelieveStillsLightAbleWantedIndividualDifferencesDarkDearGlassesWoundsPreservesSheepStatus QuoSpidersHandfulFlocksJarsInquisition Book:The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3) Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)
“In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.” WayDoeAbleActorsIndividualDarkAudienceMassTheaterCrowdsBotherDisturbing Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms