--- title: "1 Dark Powers Quotes By David N. Elkins" description: "1 Dark Powers quotes by David N. Elkins. Plus more from David N. Elkins and more Dark Powers sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/david-n-elkins-71575_anxiety_the-same-sensitivity-that-opens-artists_2294162.jpg" --- > [“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--struggled with depression, anxiety,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-n-elkins/the-same-sensitivity-that-opens-artists-to-being-also-makes-them/) David N. Elkins [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/david-n-elkins-71575_anxiety_the-same-sensitivity-that-opens-artists_2294162.jpg) ## More by David N. 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Elkins > [“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-n-elkins/in-my-more-rebellious-days-i-tried-to-doubt-the-existence-of-the/) David N. Elkins ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-powers/david-n-elkins/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dark Powers Quotes By David N. Elkins", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. 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