Dark Woods Quotes

“What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica.
To be brave is to not turn away.
To be brave is to go forward.
To be brave is to love.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“Sometimes these periods of questioning and confusion can extend over days or months. We often call them periods of depression, but it's a kind of spiritual ‘waylessness.’ For so many writers, from classical antiquity to the Brothers Grimm, being lost in the forest is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable, because you don't know if you are making progress. Have you already walked here? Are you going away from your destination? Are you walking in circles? You don't know, if you have no path to guide you. In a similar way, we can sometimes wake in our lives and wonder why we are pursuing the goods we have committed ourselves to. Whatever happened to the big dreams? Those impossibly heroic goals? How did you get stuck in this dark wood?”
― Jason M. Baxter, A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy