Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

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

Everything that is,casts a shadow

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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

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

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

A light here required a shadow there.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

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.

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

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

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