Francis Bacon Quotes

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

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.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

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.

You can't have something without nothing.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

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.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

The dark is light enough.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Everything contains its antithesis.