Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

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

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

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

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

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

Light refused increases darkness.

Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

Dark with excessive bright.

Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Whatever is not stone is light

It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

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.

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.