I belong to the stars under my skin.
To lonely Hearts.
To the dark.
I belong to the middle of the night.
To the shadows of men.
To 3 a.m.
-Mia Hollow
(more…)Darkness
989 – Martin Luther King, Jr on the United States
“The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. … But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding — something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, … the cry is always the same — ‘We want to be free.'”
-Martin Luther King, Jr
(more…)961 – “Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
-Mary Oliver
(more…)946 – 「命 は 闇 の 中 の またたく 光だ。」
“Inochi wa yami no naka no matataku hikarida.”
“Life is a winking light in the darkness.”
-Nausicaä in Hayao Miyazaki’s manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
(more…)508 – “I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.”
–Sarah Williams
453 – “The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
–Stanley Kubrick
405 – “Until we have seen someone’s darkness we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”
–Marianne Williamson
400 – “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
–Madeleine L’Engle
392 – “Violent conflicts create zones of silence in a society. The deeds and responsibility of the perpetrators are concealed. Thus also the suffering of the victims, the role of the spectators… The silence is often passed on to the next generation.”
–Dan Bar-On [Attributed]
385 – “[Some believe] it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
–Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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