Inner Darkness Quotes

“Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.”
― Trina M. Lee

“We travel through darkness to illuminate it so we can move past the shadows that we so fervently protect. Our pain makes us human and means we are real; it makes us aware of our own fragility and the subtlety of our inner being. Let the pain guide you and propel you forward rather than hold you back in an illusory grip. You are the shape of all your pain, all your challenges, and all your victories.”
― Christine Evangelou, Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose

“Don't loose your darkness out of sight! Let it serve the light!”
― Lexi Ryan, These Twisted Bonds

“All they have touched or seen they make their own,
In Nature’s basement lodge, mind’s passages fill,
Disrupt thought’s links and musing sequences,
Break through the soul’s stillness with a noise and cry
Or they call the inhabitants of the abyss,
Invite the instincts to forbidden joys,
A laughter wake of dread demoniac mirth
And with nether riot and revel shake life’s floor.

Impotent to quell his terrible prisoners
Appalled the householder helpless sits above,
Taken from him his house is his no more.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“It's your job, Marine, to stay alive. If that means getting comfortable with your inner darkness, then that's what you do.”
― Barbara Nickless, Blood on the Tracks

“True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.”
― Julia Butterfly Hill, Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoo

“There is a monster in each of us. It starts out as a small, weak thing that we pity. We feed it and we nurse it because it hurts our hearts. It grows strong as we let ourselves believe it will pay us back our kindness, that it will lead us to safety and happiness. It will not.”
― E.L. Lyons, Austringer's Wrath

“They who escape the darkness only to cast shadows on others live the deepest kind of enslavement.”
― F.C. Quiles