Divine Shadow

Famous quotes containing the words divine and/or shadow:

    There is no odor so bad as that which rises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine carrion.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, of—even—the vicious, without the terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness-what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decent—these are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. Their hidden aspects contained and tempered.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)