Top 100 All The Light Quotes
#1. We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night ...
Andrea Gibson
#2. The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
Clarence Darrow
#3. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
Jim Harrison
#4. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.
Angela McPherson
#5. Judge of my chagrin and all that sort of thing, therefore, when, tottering to my room and switching on the light, I observed the foul features of young Bingo all over the pillow.
P.G. Wodehouse
#6. He's like a sunflower, Grace. He leans into me as if I were the source of all light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#7. The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#9. Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
Matthew Arnold
#10. Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.
Cameron Dokey
#11. The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
Alfred Bunn
#12. Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.
Wilhelm Wien
#13. People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
Li Peng
#14. As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light - it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#15. Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
#16. Of all the pairs the Throne endorsed None rose to burn as bright As Lucifer, the Morning Star, And Lucinda, his Evening Light
Lauren Kate
#17. We are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Jerry Seinfeld
#18. I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.
Mike Carey
#19. Special relativity declares a similar law for all motion: the combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.
Brian Greene
#20. Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage.
Toni Sorenson
#21. All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame.
Craig Schaefer
#22. The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one another. If one becomes too powerful and starts overrunning the other, that balance will be upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.
Shatrujeet Nath
#23. And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#24. If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
#25. My heart's so light it floats and carries me so my feet don't walk. I sing all day and I don't mind the washing, and that's how I know I'm in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.
Shannon Hale
#26. A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.
Richard Adams
#27. It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.
Brandon Sanderson
#28. The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...
Samantha Lee Churcher
#29. The wonders of life ... you and I are the light! Seek within ... there is no one to fight ... love is all ... we are one ... concentrate on bringing forth your sight ... breathe deep ... the universe is waiting for you divine ones.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#30. Ignorance could be said is written in bold letters all over the institution that is supposed to be a shining light to the world
Sunday Adelaja
#31. I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
#32. I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don't turn too far upstage - that's all it is.
Robin Wright
#33. Turn the light on so your aim is better," he said mildly. "All you did was waste a full beer.
Erin McCarthy
#34. Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
Vinton Cerf
#35. The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Isaiah Crowell
#36. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is just dead machinery.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.
Marshall McLuhan
#38. Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.
Anthony Doerr
#39. With every prayer and every thought of love, we release
the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems
small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our
lights are part of God.
Marianne Williamson
#40. You were the light when my entire world was dark. You gave me a reason to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up.
Teresa Mummert
#41. It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.
Menna Van Praag
#43. We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
#44. The blue light is all over. Actually it is within my body. Makes my joints feel all warm.
Vulture thinks I talk too much.
Sandra Harner
#45. On second thought
maybe it's the little problems
that pile up the worst.
Deeper and darker.
One after another.
Until there's no light at all.
Madeleine Kuderick
#46. Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.
David Mitchell
#47. With West, I picked deep and then deeper. I picked all the way, hot and cold, good and bad, dark and light.
Robin York
#48. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are
-Sirious Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
#49. For through it all
above, beyond it all
I know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#50. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
Woodrow Wilson
#51. The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.
Lisa Wingate
#52. Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.
Anne Rice
#53. Be the light for all the world to see or be the darkness that hides in the shadows.
Sheila Parker
#54. Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. Give yourself to reading.' ... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn't know about prison.
Taylor Schilling
#57. Like the sun, life spread its light in all direction.
Paulo Coelho
#58. There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection
except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.
Thomas Huxley
#59. The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
Tanith Lee
#60. We are all One. We all come from the same Source of Love and Light.
Human Angels
#61. On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#62. Feel it all, feel it all, leave it all behind. Love it and let it go. Let the living live, maybe that's the lesson, my lesson, and maybe within that awareness, ta-da, the path I need to the light of peace will be revealed.
Stephanie Gangi
#63. Yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.
Edmund Blair Bolles
#64. Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ
the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
Philip James Bailey
#65. The light of God surrounds us. The love of God enfolds us. The power of God protects us. And the presence of God watches over us. Wherever we are, God is, and all is well.
Dwan Abrams
#66. If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it. There is a real desire when there is an effort of attention. It is really light that is desired if all other incentives are absent.
Simone Weil
#67. Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
David Hewson
#68. If darkness is really not darkness at all, but rather, the absence of light, then my flaws are not really flaws at all, but rather, the absence of you. ~ Christopher Poindexter
Beth Hyland
#69. He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.
Tracy Chevalier
#70. For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.
Anthony Bourdain
#71. What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.
Eckhart Tolle
#72. Friendship is above all the art of allowing the soft light of love to fall upon even our darkest sides." - Anne Lamott
Erica Miles
#73. Never, in any case, is any effort of true attention lost. It is always completely effective on the spiritual plane, and therefore also, in addition, on the inferior plane of the intelligence, for all spiritual light enlightens the intelligence.
Simone Weil
#74. He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light of a long enough perspective. This had never made him popular.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#75. It wasn't only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan's presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.
Nalini Singh
#76. First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#77. That night I couldn't sleep at all. Mozart had shown me immortal light, and I now felt as though I were under direct orders from Mozart. He expressed his sadness not only with the minor scale but with the major scale as well.
Lydia Davis
#78. Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.
Swami Vivekananda
#79. This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire.
Rumi
#80. When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.
CeCe Winans
#81. Life is pain. We are all in pain, all the time."
"There are other things this universe has to offer," says the creature, "Light, live, touch, sensation. The way you are all made of the same pieces; the same fragments of stardust and yet you are all so different.
Amie Kaufman
#82. Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.
Steven Knight
#83. I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#84. Neruda poem that talked about 'the light of hidden flowers.' It's easy to believe in people when they have it all together on the outside. It's way cooler to believe in them when what they have is still a little buried.
Jennifer Handford
#85. Jesus was the consummate scientist. He knew the omnipresence of Light which we have expressed in radio, radar and television, but all He could say in His day was: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Walter Russell
#86. Look for light
Listen for inspiration on the wind
Let water cleanse your soul
Set yourself on a firm foundation
Serve as the plants
Do not offend your fellow creatures
Live in harmony with all creations
Anasazi Foundation
#87. Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night ...
Charlotte Turner Smith
#88. Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.
Eugene Delacroix
#89. When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.
Chris Martin
#90. I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright
Eyedea
#91. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, ... The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#92. He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...
Dave Duncan
#93. The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets
they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
May Sarton
#95. Precious souls are at high stakes when this world turns over with feet that quake. The timeless hearts of souls that make, beautiful music at no mistake. Peace love and light too all who demand, and together forever in on this earth we we will stand.
Peace Gypsy
#96. I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.
Gabrielle Burton
#97. The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.
Francois Truffaut
#98. The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#99. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#100. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.
Conchitina Cruz
