Edna O'Brien Quotes

A light here required a shadow there.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

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.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

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

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.