Darkness Quote by Ryan Gelpke Download Open image ““Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.”” — Ryan Gelpke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darkness Forgetting Forgetting the past Light Melancholy Moth Past
“There is no light in the darkest melancholy - it's just a hole waiting for the soul and body.” — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
“I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.” — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.” — S.E. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“Understand, every moth is drawn to light, even when that light is a flame, hot and burning, flickering, the fire tantalizing the drab creature with its blueish-white illumination. But when the moth flies too close to the flame, we all know what happens: it gets burned, incinerated by the very thing that drew it near. For decades now, I have… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share
“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. While thinking this thought, I reached out a finger to feel the moth’s velvety surface; but when I brushed it with my fingertip, it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“…The heavens could not bear my debt And wrote me as a madman in my fate. But lovers bled their hearts And on the… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“representation is vital otherwise the butterfly surrounded by a group of moths unable to see itself will keep trying to become the moth” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“But as long as we all practice kindness wherever we go and don’t stop to wonder at this a so marvellous and stunning world… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or not, there… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Everything is in flux, everything moves all the time. Nothing remains the same forever.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am ever able to truly and especially in an honest matter able to describe what we all have experienced. But… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without truly living.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Ah, how much freer and fun the 70s must have been if the vibe in this casino is reflecting the mood of the 1970s.… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“The sun's descent marks not just the end of another day, but a symbolic passage—a reminder that life, like the sun, moves in cycles,… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“As Carcosa crumbled away, it was like the end of an era. That mysterious glow around it faded, leaving just traces of what used… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“We watch on as a young woman passes us by, her eyes glued to the screen of her phone. She almost walks into a… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What does he look like? The question was soft- tentative. I knew who he meant. I interlaced my fingers through Rhysand's and squeezed tightly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
