Joseph Brodsky Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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.

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

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.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

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

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

A light here required a shadow there.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

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

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

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

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

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.