Best Lighthouse Quotes

#1. For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

Anthony Rapp

#3. The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

Ann Cleeves

#4. Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.

China Mieville

#5. She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets.

Virginia Woolf

#6. A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.

M.L. Stedman

#7. The lighthouse teaches me to work hard, to keep my room clean, to be honest and to be nice to people." Then, reflecting, looking down at her feet, "My room is a mess and I lie sometimes and I'm not always nice to people but that's the idea.

Jeff VanderMeer

#8. If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

#9. You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#10. Pair of Stephens Island wrens, which were found only on a small, isolated island in New Zealand's Cook Strait. All were killed by a lighthouse keeper's cat.

Bill Bryson

#11. Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.

Jonathan Dunne

#12. A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.

Debasish Mridha

#13. To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.

Danny Fox

#14. Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.

Stacy Schiff

#17. We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

George Downing

#18. (for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt) ...

Virginia Woolf

#19. But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore.

Jonathan Dunne

#20. A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.

Tom Baker

#21. Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon ...

Graham Swift

#22. If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one

Liz Kessler

#24. If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Even a lighthouse needs TLC, and a caretaker.

Cheri Bauer

#26. We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.

James Michael Pratt

#27. Somewhat of goodness, something true
From sun and spirit shining through
All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark
Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark,
Attests the presence everywhere
Of love and providential care.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#28. For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles ...

Errico Malatesta

#29. If a lighthouse looks like it's in a different place, it's not the lighthouse that's moved.

M.L. Stedman

#30. Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

Lisa Wingate

#31. In the future I man a lighthouse with my wife, daughter, and father-in-law. We send out a great beam of light every night even though no one ever sees it.

Matthew Quick

#32. And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Ford Madox Ford