DARK  NIGHT  OF  THE  SOUL

Quote for Today  - December 14,  2010


"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning."


Francis Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940], from The Crack-up [1936]. I wonder if he's making a reference to St. John of the Cross' work, La Noche Oscura del Alma, The Dark Night of the Soul, the title of his writings [c. 1583], based on his poem Songs of the Soul Which Rejoices at Having Reached ... Union with God by the Road of Spiritual Negation [c. 1578]. Today, December 14th, but in 1591, is the day John of the Cross died at the age of 49.