“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” - Nietzsche
”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” -Jean Genet
“What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle” - Rumi
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious". - Carl Jung