Matt Haig Quotes

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

Dark with excessive bright.

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.