Source: Paradise Lost
“Fear grows in darkness; if you think theres a bogeyman around, turn on the light.”
“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 90
Song lyrics, Death is Not the End
“We grow despite the
horror that we feed
upon our own
tomorrow.
We grow.”
"Glory Falls"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)
Quoted in [Buchwald, Laura, 2003, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/sharrison.html, "Authors: Sabrina Ward Harrison", The Modern Library, RandomHouse.com, 2007-09-21]
Section 1 : The Meaning of Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Here are two kinds of light, the light on the hither side of the darkness and the light beyond the darkness. We must press on through the darkness and the terror of it if we would reach the holier light beyond.
We are here — no matter who put us here, or how we came here — to fulfil a task. We cannot afford to go of our own volition until the last item of our duty is discharged.
“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Context: Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 7
