Ray Bradbury Quotes

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

I am too dark in my heart tonight.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.