Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

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

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

A light here required a shadow there.

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

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

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

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

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