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“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”

Ifs Mean Grows Dark White Higher Citizens Protect Highest Safety Rounds Saint Necks Feminine Throat Conventions Worn Committees Public Life Obscene Ribbons Crimson Public Safety Inversions

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.”

Age Together Dark Safety Mad Someday Dark Ages Vistas

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”

Knows Matter Moments Happens Artist Next Dark Bears Citizens Walking Illusion No Matter What Safety Nobody Knows Whistling Walking In The Dark

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”

Thinking World Mind Humans Reality Light Age Together Dark Knowledge Position Positive Ignorance Limits Safety Mad Revelations Human Mind Inability Dark Ages Merciful Vistas Placid

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.”

World Looks Moments Eye Wanted Girl Water Dark Sun Forever Calling Ocean Safety Filled Wave Insane Staring Queens Shore Salt Rope Matched Open Eyes Fierceness Let Her Go

Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.”

Thinking Dark Strange Areas Safety Coffee Diners Milkshakes

Book:Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.”

Way Looks Home Light Night Asks Lost Strong Dark Answers Lord Destruction Safety Storm Guides Rescue Threatened Fog Dense Beacons Gale Lighthouse Guide Me Mariners Storms Of Life

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.”

Earth Left Black Dark Sleep Mankind Safety Depth Corners Nightmare Conquest Surviving Left Alone Abnormality

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.”

“Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.”

Giving Mean Self Spirit Sides Dark Silence Divine Strange Poet Listening Letting Go Illusion Madness Safety Oneself Spokes Sane Frightening Self Control Plato Let It Go Dark Side

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.”

“Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.”

Doe Age Dark Car Safety Sells Medical Dark Ages

Author:Lee Iacocca

“We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.”

Needs Helping Use Dark Steps Walking Safety Blind Sticks Determine Seeking Gentle Doomed Walking Sticks

Book:The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality

Source: The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality

“Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.”

Thinking Truth Running Life Is Dark Steps Proud Safety Every Step

Author:Richard Bach