"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."- Ambrose Bierce   (photo by Horydczak Theodor, ''Charles Bittinger in painting Moon Eclipse'')

''But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest. Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame To stay the shadow on the dial's face At manhood's noonmark!'' -Baruch Arnegriff    (painting by Philips Wouwerman)

“Let us go in; the fog is rising.” -Emily Dickinson  (painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski)

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” -Rosalia de Castro

“Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.” -William James   ( illustration by Dan Hillier, ''Forest'' )

''The nearer the dawn the darker the night'' -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  ( painting by Jeffrey Jones, ''Dark Angel'')