“Is it foolishness for someone to make himself a light when he is surrounded by darkness and misguidance?”

“Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.”

“Within a person of light there is light, and he illumines the entire world. When he does not shine, there is darkness.”

“I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me
I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.”

“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”

“It's hard to believe how much light you cand find in the darkness, when you have someone who loves you.”

“I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.”

“When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.”

“A shadow will appear dark in proportion to the brilliancy of the light surrounding it and conversely it will be less conspicuous where it is seen against a darker background.”

“Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.”