Top 100 Lighthouse Quotes
#1. We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
George Downing
#3. And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
Ford Madox Ford
#4. 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
#5. Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the
Lisa Wingate
#6. If a lighthouse looks like it's in a different place, it's not the lighthouse that's moved.
M.L. Stedman
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Even a lighthouse needs TLC, and a caretaker.
Cheri Bauer
#11. If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one
Liz Kessler
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore.
Jonathan Dunne
#17. (for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt) ...
Virginia Woolf
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#22. 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
#23. A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.
Debasish Mridha
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.
M.L. Stedman
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.
Antonia Michaelis
#34. Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them.
Virginia Woolf
#36. watched at the window. Very soon the boat turned around again and came in to the dock not far from the lighthouse. It looked like a man who jumped out. But Benny knew that the Cook boy was as big as a man. Benny watched him as he bent over his boat. He took
Gertrude Chandler Warner
#37. Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.
Howard Norman
#38. So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn't see her bottom half?
Jonathan Dunne
#39. 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
#40. Opposites attract, mom.'
'Yes, but in your case, darling, it is hydrogen and oxygen, and we all know what happened the Hindenberg.'
Just in case their daughter wasn't aware of the ill-fated zeppelin, Lambert clarified: 'This too will end in flames.
Jonathan Dunne
#41. I'm going to put a diamond on you the size of a lighthouse beacon. There won't be a man in this city who doesn't know you're married.
Kristen Painter
#43. When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.
Dada Bhagwan
#44. It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#46. As I left the landing, I had the peculiar thought that I was not the first to pocket the photo, that someone would always come behind to replace it, to circle the lighthouse keeper again.
Jeff VanderMeer
#47. Caesar tarried in Egypt, Taking in all the spoils, The Lighthouse, the Library, Queen Cleopatra and Her many-perfumed oils.
Margaret George
#48. The moon is the lighthouse of love, and as changing as a woman's mind.
Debasish Mridha
#49. The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing
Thomas S. Monson
#50. She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable
this interminable life.
Virginia Woolf
#51. Tragedies of this world behave like the storms of the vast oceans! While you are inside this storm, let your mind stand upright like a lighthouse!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. And ... it's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse.
Laini Taylor
#53. It wasn't every day there was a shooting in a historic lighthouse involving a celebrity chef, an officer of the court, a standard poodle and a fudge recipe.
Kristi Abbott
#54. I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
Michael Koryta
#55. Hope is born in the dark. Like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, hope will bring you through every personal storm. It is our encouragement and guide to safety. Hope is found in the arms of God.
Cheryl Zelenka
#56. That night, at the lighthouse, everything else faded away and my entire world became Sofia Claremont.
Bella Forrest
#57. And then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has.
William Gibson
#58. Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell.
Elinor Dewire
#59. It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.
Susane Colasanti
#60. Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis.
Jonathan Dunne
#61. The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.
Lisa Wingate
#62. And with that, I'm going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.
Amber Silvia
#64. Be for once a white boat adrift, in debt to no lighthouse.
- Arachne
Robin Hyde
#65. The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.
Jody Hedlund
#66. This is our place. Through the harsh waves, the lighthouse stands strong and guides the wanderers safely home. Like many others, who may be lost and fighting for everything, we search for the promise of its glow.
Matt Juhl
#67. These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.
Rebecca Wells
#68. Earth is such a sweet 'n sour place, thought Gonzo, puffing on his seaweed roll-up, and he knew that if aliens did exist, then they'd probably only stop to avail of this planet's toilet facilities on the intergalactic highway.
Jonathan Dunne
#69. In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
Lauren DeStefano
#70. Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago.
Virginia Woolf
#71. under the lighthouse there's always darkness
Tsukasa Hojo
#72. We must understand that the local church isn't a country club or a casual self-help group. It is God's holy temple, a congregation of redeemed saints and priests who are consecrated to God. It is God's lighthouse in a dark world. It is the pillar and support of the truth.
Alexander Strauch
#73. A lighthouse is kind of like an angel. Most of the people the light helps take it for granted. Until it's not there.
Jeffrey Perren
#75. She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Henry James
#76. Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
#77. Who is Hunter Becker?"
"Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?"
"I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing.
Ilona Andrews
#78. Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
Morrissey
#79. I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
George Bernard Shaw
#80. To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.
Chris Tomlin
#82. She noticed a monger's window where, on a bed of ice, a wonderful scene was worked in fish. A skiff made of flounder fillets rode waves of shrimp and blue-black mussels. A whole salmon was a lighthouse, shot out rays of glittering mackerel. All framed by a border of crab claws. She
Annie Proulx
#83. Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
Henry Ward Beecher
#84. Black met black on the distant horizon, the stars alone distinguishing sky from lake. On the sand below, Silver Beach glittered at the water's edge while on the north side of the river the lighthouse's beacon signaled safe harbor.
Erin Farwell
#85. The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns the ship of your heart that he is a stone.
Mikl Paul
#86. God, remember when we defeated Goliath, when we pastured sheep or we threw, in vain, the nets, and You chose us."
FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ASAPH BOOK
Roberto Ornan Roche
#87. A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home,
Lea Michele
#88. Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's the lighthouse on the shore telling you to steer out of the storm. Don't
Donna Augustine
#90. And Futh, looking at the lighthouse, wondered how this could happen--how there could be this constant warning of danger, the taking of all these precautions, and yet still there was all this wreckage.
Alison Moore
#91. At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
Lauren Groff
#92. Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
Tom Baker
#93. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing
Virginia Woolf
#94. Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear.
Sharon Kirstin
#95. Noah held out his hand and I took it, lettng his fingers slide between mine. He led me away from the lighthouse and back along the path, guiding me home. Somewhere, I knew Jack was smiling.
Kate Kae Myers
#96. A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.
Charles Dickens
#98. Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Vernon Howard
#99. I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. I am your friend. a soul for your soul. a place for your life. home. know this. sun or water. here or away. we are a lighthouse. we leave. and we stay.
Nayyirah Waheed
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