Top 100 I Need Light Quotes
#1. I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#2. You are the light I crave, at times you are what makes my skin color change, you provide me with a ray of hope, the feeling of home and an occasional feeling of pain. But You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, the only source of light I need.
Patrick Stevens
#3. I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell
#4. Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I need a rabies shot, but them's the breaks.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#5. But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. I need to let him go. But hearts don't work like light switches; they don't just flick on and off. They swell rapidly with love and bleed out slowly with pain.
B.N. Toler
#7. Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#8. You let me be who I am. So many people ask me why I need to take pictures all the time. Why I'm staring at something they can't see. It's like I have to apologize for having eyes. But you've never rushed me. I'm at my best around you. You're my nova. You light me up.
Katie Kacvinsky
#9. The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.
Virginia Hamilton
#10. Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won't help to call "I need a light" / You're in Karachi now / Oh, oh you're in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You're in Karachi now
Kamila Shamsie
#11. I don't need to write light, to see light.
You are only disabled, if you disable yourself.
I may have an illness, but I am not the illness
Truth is, despite what they may say, I'll get out of this world alive.
I am the Gospel of Myself.
Alexej Savreux
#12. I need more dreams and less life
I need that dark in a little more light
Fall Out Boy
#13. God sees me through all my darkness ... so why wouldn't I honor him by shining my light to help all in need!
Timothy Pina
#14. I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.
Kristy Swanson
#15. I am in love with you, miranda Grey. I've fallen so far into you that I can't eve see the stars anymore, but it doesn't matter- you're all the light I need."
" Cheesy.
Dianne Sylvan
#16. Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.
D.S. Mixell
#17. We're more broken if we don't have each other. Let me put us back together again. I need you, Olivia. Desperately. You're making my world light.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#18. I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.
Hank Aaron
#19. It's a sort of literary act of survival. I don't have many words to express myself
rather, the opposite. I'm aware of a state of deprivation. And yet, at the same time, I feel free, light. I rediscover the reason that I write, the joy as well as the need.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#20. He grinned, "Honey, the only fire you're going to need is the one I light in you."
He was right.
Debbie Mason
#21. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.
Denise Levertov
#22. A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. So lately, been wondering
Who will be there to take my place
When I'm gone, you'll need love
To light the shadows on your face.
The Calling
#24. I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.
L.J.Smith
#25. I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
Lauren Oliver
#26. My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.
Frederick Lenz
#27. I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.
Diego Della Valle
#28. All of my babies know that I preach all day ... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
Betty Wright
#29. The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.
Jane Bown
#30. We do not desire the power of wizard-lords, only strength to defend ourselves, strength in a just cause. And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power. It is a gift, I say; a gift to the foes of Mordor. It
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.
Bruce Lee
#32. I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
Amy Tan
#33. I see less and less ... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up ... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
Claude Monet
#34. We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.
Joe Jamail
#35. My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?
Mary E. DeMuth
#36. You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?
Harry Chapin
#37. I really need that cake now. Startled laughter in his blood, unexpected light in the shadows, the taste of snow in her kiss. And he knew that come what may, they'd stand together. In the light and in the terrible darkness.
Nalini Singh
#38. And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form.
Ralph Ellison
#39. Forgiveness can get you places, I guess. But sometimes you need to light a fire.
Danielle Paige
#40. This is the way for us to grow. I hope that the Lord will speak to you concerning your growth, that your growth in life is with the fourth-day lights. The first-day light was good for generating life, good for your rebirth. But, for your growth in life you need the fourth-day lights.
Witness Lee
#41. Don't make a sound I'll be your voice You don't need to be afraid Anymore I'll shine a light out in the dark Guide you here no matter how far
David Archuleta
#42. May I be a light for those in need of light. May I be a bed for those in need of rest. May I be a servant for those in need of service, for all embodied beings.
Shantideva
#43. I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
Toni Morrison
#44. The world is so beautiful, when you look at it.
So detailed. So sharp. Everything's just there
so much more than we need. Light we can't see, sounds we can't hear. Sometimes I wonder if that's what it takes to make it real.
Manna Francis
#45. In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Francisco Goya
#46. To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.
Laura Marano
#47. That's impossible [ ... ] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven't you heard of the theory of relativity?"
She thought she had him stumped with that one, but he just laughed again. "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Shannon Messenger
#48. I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
Sam Bradford
#49. Eight solid light-years of lead ... is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.
Michael Chabon
#50. When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.
Jeff Ross
#51. Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#53. I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
Leo Buscaglia
#55. Before she could touch him, he stepped back. "I've no need of a human."
"Half-Light," she corrected, still meeting his gaze in the surface. "I've no need of a dragon magician.
Susan Scott
#56. I need to fuck her, messy, hot, and wild. I want her body, her touch, her light to replace all the darkness that creeps into my dreams.
Karina Halle
#57. I need you, Charlotte, I need you like air, like light. Without you there's only darkness. There's emptiness. Tell me what you want me to do. I'd wait forever for you. Just don't tell me you don't want me back.
Nancy Gideon
#58. Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#59. That is why I refuse to shutter the windows. We need more light. Even a flower withers without sunshine.
Jeff Wheeler
#60. 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
#61. You light up the blackness that has been my life, and I don't know how to ever be the kind of man you need and deserve, but I want to try. For you, for me, and for us.
Jasinda Wilder
#62. I believe the night I've never met
hides one elusive star I need
to divide me between darkness and light
Munia Khan
#63. When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.
Don Cheadle
#64. Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others.
Rami M. Shapiro
#65. And perhaps you thought, "Because I'm doing so much spiritual work, I'm only going to attract angels." No! The more spiritual work you do, the more darkness you attract. Because the light don't need more light. The darkness needs light! The light doesn't need more light.
Iyanla Vanzant
#66. I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange to me. I didn't need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it.
Jennifer Warnes
#67. The light is a funny thing, Grant. We think it shows us what we need to see, but in reality, it blinds us. That's why I brought you here. I wanted you to see me.
Adrienne Wilder
#68. I say we have no time for debate. Indeed, we have no need for it, since the decision has been made for us. We must fight. There is no other path!
Kaoru Kurimoto
#69. I need you to promise me that you will never let anybody dim your light. It's the most goddamn beautiful think about you. Don't dim it for anyone. Ever.
Scarlett Cole
#70. I've said before, Harry, no need to hide your light," said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, "Dance, monkey, dance.
Hanif Kureishi
#71. I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.
Daniel Boulud
#72. Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
Rumi
#73. No plan,' I sighed. The paper bird had flown away without my noticing, and I wondered briefly where it had gone. 'I need faith, Light, and friendship, apparently.'
Pixie dust. Don't forget that. It's very important.
'Shut up,' I said, scratching him behind the ear.
Mirriam Neal
#74. I am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.
Miguel Ruiz
#75. Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.
Leo Tolstoy
#76. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.
C.M. Stunich
#77. Then we'd better stop her." Coating the hammering fear with calming ice, Roarke worked precisely. "I'm not losing my wife today. I need more shagging light here.
J.D. Robb
#78. I have lived
in my body
for years
and still need
maps and lights
to find my way
to how I feel.
K.Michelle
#79. Oh telescope,
Keep your eye on my only hope,
Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road,
Hercules, you've got nothing to say to me,
'Cause you're not the blinding light that I need.
For He is the saving grace of the galaxies!
Owl City
#80. I'm so in love with you, and I need you. I need you every day. You're my strength and my light and, without you, I'm nothing.
Sandi Lynn
#81. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.
Stephen King
#82. I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand around; it also minimises problems at check-in.
Kyle MacLachlan
#83. You make everything perfect, Lucy. You're my light and my life and all I need is your love to guide me home, no matter where I go.
Tara Sivec
#84. After a while, didn't you crave flaws? Love and lust and misunderstandings, and maybe even a little violence to liven things up? Didn't light need shade? Didn't it? Maybe it didn't. Maybe I was missing the point.
Matt Haig
#86. Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.
Caitlin Moran
#87. Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?
Maggie Stiefvater
#88. What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
A.S. Byatt
#89. Oh, in all things but this,
I know how full of fears a woman is,
And faint at need, and shrinking from the light
Of battle: but once spoil her of her right
In man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well,
No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell.
Euripides
#90. I travel so much for work that when I fly, I prefer to travel light and bring a carry-on bag that I don't need to check.
Behati Prinsloo
#91. take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.
Timothy Ferriss
#92. It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?
Corrie Ten Boom
#93. I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!
Jeremy Renner
#94. A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.
Karl Kraus
#95. I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."
Steven Wright
#96. Walk out," he repeated. "We need to talk."
"About how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body?" I asked, my tone light, my insides feeling leaden.
"That might be cute if you thought it was true.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#97. This is a man in need. His fear is naked and obvious, but he's lost ... Somewhere in his darkness.
His eyes wide and bleak and tortured. I can soothe him. Join him briefly in the darkness and bring him into the light.
E.L. James
#98. My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.
Allison Pearson
#99. Guess what, Satsuki! I realized something wonderful!
I don't have to be a teacher to light the way for others. I can make my dream come true in other ways!! And for that, I need you. It has to be you. I love you. Without you ... I can't even smile.
Bisco Hatori
#100. Because I don't need oxygen. I've already come to all my conclusions. I'm just slowly gliding down. Someday I'll be as light as a feather.
Mark Helprin
