Dark Time Quotes
Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid it is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this dark world AND to illuminate...
David Foster Wallace
![Bertolt Brecht quote: "In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will..."](/pic/342499/600x316/quotation-bertolt-brecht-in-the-dark-times-will-there-also-be-singing.jpg)
![Theodore Roethke quote: "In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in..."](/pic/370095/600x316/quotation-theodore-roethke-in-a-dark-time-the-eye-begins-to-see-i-meet.jpg)
![George R. R. Martin quote: "Lawless men are everywhere in this dark time, oh, yes. Men..."](/pic/366915/600x316/quotation-george-r-r-martin-lawless-men-are-everywhere-in-this-dark-time.jpg)
and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.
Elizabeth Gilbert
![Kate DiCamillo quote: "In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us..."](/pic/285657/600x316/quotation-kate-dicamillo-in-a-dark-time-doors-will-sometimes-magically.jpg)
![Elie Wiesel quote: "In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity..."](/pic/252675/600x316/quotation-elie-wiesel-in-those-dark-times-one-rose-to-the-very-heights.jpg)