Colum McCann Quotes About Darkness

• I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

  Colum McCann

  Optimism, Darkness, Sometimes

• What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

  Colum McCann

  Real, Light, Darkness

  "Let the Great World Spin". Book by Colum McCann, 2009.

• The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

  Colum McCann

  Stars, Fall, Sky

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

• This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

  Colum McCann

  Darkness, Cobwebs

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing

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