Clear Quote by Eric Hoffer

“As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision…

— Thomas Ligotti

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I…

— John Steinbeck

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the…

— Seal

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to…

— Mary E. Pearson

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

— Betty MacDonald

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

— Tanith Lee

Someone once told me that none of us are actually afraid of the dark; we're scared of what it conceals from us. We're afraid…

— Anonymous

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings…

— Iain Banks

If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light

— Asking Alexander

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of…

— Carl Jung

We need to empower ourselves and believe in ourselves, and not allow the world to take that away from us. No matter how dark…

— Gale Anne Hurd