Pastoral Resources

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

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

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

See you in the darkness.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.