Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

The dark is light enough.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

In the dark, all cats are black.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

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

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.