“Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Source: A Ring of Endless Light (1980)
Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior
“Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Source: A Ring of Endless Light (1980)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”
Garth Nix book Mister Monday
Source: Mister Monday
“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.
Ted Dekker book House
Variant: The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
Source: House
“There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.”
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Source: My Sister's Keeper