Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

You can't have something without nothing.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

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

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

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

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.