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• A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

  Susan Piver

  Dark, Night, Emotional

  Susan Piver (2010). “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup Into Healing, Insight, and New Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Dark, Night

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Depression, Dark, Night

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• The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Mother, Stars, Father

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• As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You.

  Sara Groves

  Dark, Night, Light

  Song: You Are The Sun

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• Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dark, Night, Glowing

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1141, e-artnow

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• And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

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• The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Dark, Thinking, Night

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• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Long

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• I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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• After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.

  Lydia Davis

  Baby, Loss, Dark

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• I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.

  Sam Keen

  Dark, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

  Tim Farrington

  Dark, Night, Missing

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• A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

  Henry James

  Horse, Dark, Night

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2534, e-artnow

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• Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Dark, Night, Reality

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• In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Dream, Loneliness, Dark

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dark, Night, Imagination

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• In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.

  Rajneesh

  Rain, Dark, Night

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• You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

  Sam Keen

  Dark, Night, Personal Transformation

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• The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.

  Barry Manilow

  Dark, Night, Florida

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!

  J. G. Farrell

  Daughter, Cat, Dark

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• The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Dark, Night, Journey

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.104, Hay House, Inc

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• Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Night, Light

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.338

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