Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

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

A light here required a shadow there.

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.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

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.

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

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

The light is the left hand of darkness.

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.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

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

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

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.

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.'

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

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