Natasha Khan Quotes

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

I can guide you if you feel blind, I just need you to be willing to journey into my ILL Mind.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.