Adam Tiller

“If a direct, uncomplicated, simple relationship offers us happiness, we won’t accept it. It is “too simple,” “too dull.” We are trained to respect only what is inflated, hyperintense, high-pressured, big and complicated.”
― Robert A. Johnson, We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

“And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth…I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here, nineteen hundred years ago…They were men enough to face the darkness…They were conquerors…They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind–as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!"
— Hamlet, Act I, Scene V”
― Hamlet Act I Scene V William Shakespeare.