Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

A light here required a shadow there.

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

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.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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

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.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

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.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

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

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

The light is the left hand of darkness.