John Darnielle Quotes

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

Dark with excessive bright.