Light and Dark Quotes

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

There's a dark side to everything.

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.

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

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

You can't tell a Batman story without the Joker, and you can't tell a Joker story without Batman. They're just the symbols of the best and worst of humanity.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

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.

Given a choice I want to do a yin and yang tattoo on the middle of my chest and right next to my heart.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.