Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

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

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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

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

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

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.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

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

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

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

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

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

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

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.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.