Joseph Campbell Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Darkness, Lost

• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

• There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Heaven, Darkness

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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