“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source: Teibele And Her Demon

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Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902–1991

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Variant: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Context: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

“Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces everyone of us at one time or another.”

Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 12

“The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States

Source: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

“"It's twilight," Edward murmured. […] "It's the safest time of day for us," he said, answering the unspoken question in my eyes. "The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way … the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?" He smiled wistfully.
"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."”

Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author

Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, pp. 232-233
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)

“The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.”

Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer

All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)

“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

Gilbert Ryle book The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. VIII: Imagination, (2) Picturing and Seeing

“So mercy, mercy, mercy me

Praying for the death of a man I'll never meet

Though everyone will know the truth they'll still just make believe

Mercy mercy me

That's all they came for, that's all they took

That's all we had to offer, only dirty looks

And when they realized we'd given all we could, that's when they finally understood

Mercy mercy mercy me

Haunted by the memories of things we'll never see

Guilty for the statements that we'll never get to speak

Mercy mercy me

"We can't quite blame it on our mothers

Claim everything they did was always wrong"

And there ain't no turning back when our train is off its track

And there's nothing we can do but watch it crash

And there ain't no right and wrong when we know it won't be long

And there's nothing we can do but watch it crash”

Tomas Kalnoky (1980) American musician

"Watch It Crash" from "Somewhere in the Between" (2007) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/sitb/05/

“A theology which has as its points of reference only "truths" which have been established once and for all—and not the Truth which is also the Way—can only be static and, in the long run, sterile.”

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian

Source: A Theology of Liberation (1971), p. 13

“Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
I can see paradise by the dashboard light.”

Jim Steinman (1947) American musician

Bat out of Hell (1977), Paradise by the Dashboard Light

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark”

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