- Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
- Thus shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
- There is no light without shadow. Isabel Allende
- Wherever there is light, there is shadow. Gautama Buddha
- Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Rumi
- It’s the shade that defines the light. Tori Amos
- A light here required a shadow there. Virginia Woolf
- The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Carl Jung
- The first light had cast the first shadow. Grant Morrison
- The shadows are as important as the light. Charlotte Bronte
- Turn to the light. Don’t fear the shadow it creates. Ted Dekker
- Every light has its shadow, and every shadow. Nicolaus Copernicus
- I always think of shade as being full of light. John French Sloan
- Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. Maya Angelou
- There is strong shadow where there is much light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Don’t be afraid of the shadows, it only means there’s a light nearby. Amy Lee
- Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light. Leonardo da Vinci
- The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. Socrates
- The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. Aristotle
- What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light. Louis Kahn
- Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it’s all good. Susan W. Krebs
- Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light Rumi
- There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. Carl Jung
- Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning. Nicolaus Copernicus
- There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. Keri Hulme
- There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain. Isabel Allende
- Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Hans Frank
- Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. Hazrat Inayat Khan
- I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death. Manuel Alvarez Bravo
- Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. Mary Stewart
- Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Walt Disney
- Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right. Libba Bray
- Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial. Gautama Buddha
- Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow…. We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago– from a time before good and evil even existed, when people’s minds were still benighted. Haruki Murakami
