Nathaniel Dorsky quotes

“Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande”
-- Nathaniel Dorsky

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“In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.”
-- Nathaniel Dorsky

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“Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.”
-- Nathaniel Dorsky

Source : Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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“San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal”
-- Nathaniel Dorsky

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“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.”

“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us”

Source : Dean Koontz (2011). “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie”, p.170, Bantam

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

“I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.”

Source : Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial

“Try a little tenderness ...”

“There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.”