„Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.“

— Vladimir Nabokov

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„These two armies, the dark and the light, the armies of life and of death, collide eternally.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.“
— Bram Stoker
„Life is a winking light in the darkness.“
— Hayao Miyazaki
„The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of the subconscious, this correlation between darkness and our subconscious, these two forms of darkness, was obvious to people. It wasn't a metaphor, even. If you trace it back further, it wasn't even a correlation. Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked. Like this.“
— Haruki Murakami