Light And Dark Quotes - Page 5

• Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.

  James Elkins

  Eye, Dark, Moon

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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• Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word?

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

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• I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

  Federico Fellini

  Light, Darkness, Cinema

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• Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Light, Two, Darkness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1647, Manonmani Publishers

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• Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dark

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.102, Parkstone International

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• I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Dark, Light, Giving

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• There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or tragedy, you try to mix it up within that. You can work on a comedy and it's not laugh-a-minute off set. You can work on a tragedy that's absolutely hilarious.

  Harry Treadaway

  Jobs, Drama, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Dark, Thinking

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• There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

  Ase-Marie Nesse

  Life, Dark, Light

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• The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiring, Christian, Moving

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• Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Relative Value, Light

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• As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Change, Dark, Light

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• My dad told me he knew where to find Zay. Which meant I had to cooperate with him....Do you see what we have accomplished together? The healing of souls with the magic you carry. We have healed souls in death. With light and dark magic.We? No, you stuck your hands in my chest and stole my magic and threw it at them. If you try that again, you won't have hands. Where's Zayvion? Okay, maybe I was a little rusty on the whole cooperation thing.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Healing, Dark

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• Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Darkness, Driven

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• There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

  Jenna Jameson

  Light, Evil, Choices

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• I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

  Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

  Wendell Berry

  Dark, Garden, Light

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.242, Counterpoint Press

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• Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

  Robert Bresson

  Distance, Dark, Light

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• We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Writing, Vocabulary, Light

  By Despina Mouzaki, www.filmfestival.gr.

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• There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

  David Travis

  Light, Imagination, Darkness

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• I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Light, Darkness

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• The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Light, Agony

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• The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dark, Light, People

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