Dark Night Of The Soul Quotes:

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Depressing, Morning, Real, Dark Days, Dark Night Of The Soul

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Pain, Dark Night Of The Soul, Without Pain

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

- John of the Cross

source: John of the Cross (2017). “Dark Night of the Soul”, Whitaker House

topic: Dark, Night, Rivers, Dark Night, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

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

topic: Dark, Night, Journey, Dark Night Of The Soul

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Life, Darkness, Lost, Dark Night Of The Soul

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

- Vilayat Inayat Khan

source: Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher

topic: Dark, Night, Soul, Dark Night Of The Soul

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

topic: Dark, Night, Soul, Dark Night, Dark Night Of The Soul

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Dark, Night, Giving, Dark Night Of The Soul

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

- Carl Jung

topic: Light, Darkness, Mind, Individuation, Inner Darkness

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

- Tori Amos

topic: Dark, Night, Soul, Dark Night, Dark Night Of The Soul

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

- Flannery O'Connor

source: Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan

topic: Dark, Night, Soul, Dark Night Of The Soul

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

- Flannery O'Connor

source: Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

topic: Funny, Life, Change, Upset Stomach, Times Have Changed

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Depression, Dance, Courage, Inspirational Dance, Dark Night Of The Soul

A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Prayer, Fall, Heart, Dark Night Of The Soul, Lifting

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

- Sam Keen

topic: Dark, Night, Personal Transformation, Dark Night Of The Soul

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Fear, People, Memories Dreams Reflections, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

- Mariel Hemingway

topic: Dark, Night, Reality, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

source: Source: archives.wineskins.org

topic: Dream, Loneliness, Dark, Dark Night Of The Soul

Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.

- John Welwood

topic: Love, Lying, Fall, Dark Night Of The Soul

Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Dark, Night, Soul, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

topic: Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe, Dark Night Of The Soul, Loss Of Faith

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

- Charles Simic

source: Charles Simic (1997). “Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs”

topic: Believe, Dark, Night, Dark Night, Dark Night Of The Soul

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

- Van Morrison

topic: Christian, Dark, Night, Dark Night Of The Soul, Thoughts And Words

There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

- Stuart Stevens

topic: Running, Brother, Dark, Either Or, Obi Wan Kenobi

Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breastAnd by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead

- John of the Cross

topic: Eye, Night, Flames, Dark Night Of The Soul

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

- Rufus Jones

topic: Adversity, Dark, Night, Dark Night Of The Soul, Broken Pieces

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: "Handle with Care" (1936)

topic: Death Sentence, Dark Night, Dark Night Of The Soul

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

- Robert A. Johnson

source: Robert A. Johnson (1989). “He: Understanding Masculine Psychology”, Harpercollins

topic: Dark, Night, Two, Dark Night, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

topic: Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus, Dark Night Of The Soul

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Dark, Night, Giving, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

topic: Depression, Dark, Night, Dark Night Of The Soul, Foxholes

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

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

topic: Dark, Night, Florida, Dark Night Of The Soul, Payroll

Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Source: www.inner-growth.info

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching, Spiritual Teaching, Dark Night Of The Soul

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

- Robert Penn Warren

topic: Lying, Blessed, Eye, Dark Night Of The Soul

I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

- T.C. Boyle

topic: Drinking, Believe, Dark, Dark Night Of The Soul, Drinking Problem

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

- James Wolcott

topic: Dark, Night, Clouds, Gallows, Dark Night Of The Soul

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

- Edmund White

topic: Atheist, Dark, Night, Dark Night Of The Soul, Busy Bee