„Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love, too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.“
— Tennessee Williams
„There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness.“
— Charles Bukowski
„The Lords have secret entrances and they know disguises. But they give themselves away in minor ways. Too much glint of light in the eye. A wrong gesture. Too long and curious a glance.“
— Jim Morrison
„The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.“
— Franz Kafka
„In light of knowledge obtained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.“
— Albert Einstein