Brandon Sanderson Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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.

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

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

A light here required a shadow there.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

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

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

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

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

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 dark is light enough.

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.