Pastoral Resources

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.