Top 100 Quotes About Light
#1. I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.
John Assaraf
#2. Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Charles De Lint
#3. A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.
David A. Bednar
#4. Natural for you, perfectly natural," the Professor whispered. "Natural to refuse the key that is given. To be blind in the darkness of knowing. To be filled with a dark light that we must shine on the people around us. A light that makes us weep and pull down our own houses.
Timothy Taylor
#5. If you only knew the beauty of who you are, would beg for more light to illuminate every corner of yourself
Ross Hostetter
#6. Let us think, let us love
Just for a day, just for a night
Let us find peace and happiness
Deep in our heart with spiritual light.
Debasish Mridha
#7. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.
Stephen King
#8. A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.
Victoria Schwab
#9. No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you ... and you could change the magic.
Libba Bray
#10. You all have learned reliance
On the sacred teachings of Science,
So I hope, through life, you will never decline
In spite of philistine Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment.
And it will lead you to the light.
Cole Porter
#11. All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill
#12. Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
Thomas Carlyle
#13. What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.
Ted Cruz
#14. My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes
I hate those two things.
Timothy M. Dolan
#15. You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#16. And you have fixed my life - however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.
Wilfred Owen
#17. It is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
Frank O'Hara
#18. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.
Rosamund Lupton
#19. The strange days of summer. There is no here, no there, the days are incredibly still, the light is brightly muted--it's hard to know if that's the passing of the season or poor air quality.
A.M. Homes
#20. Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#21. Application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
James Lee Burke
#22. Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.
Robert Aris Willmott
#23. Remember this, she thought. The way the light caught in his unruly hair, the love in his brown eyes, the chapped lips that had kissed her only an hour ago, in the darkness.
Kristin Hannah
#24. Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day
the light of day, faint in her windowless room.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. There is no difference between dark skin and light skin if you are both black. You are not inferior or superior, you are the same race.
Angela Khristin Brown
#26. In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#27. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
Vin Scully
#28. Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
John Ruskin
#29. The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.
Toni Morrison
#31. It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
Vincent De Paul
#33. Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
Peter Kreeft
#34. You should shine with all of your light all the time.
Garth Stein
#36. There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'
Charles Dickens
#37. On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than land or ice. The open sea's telltale sign is thus a darkness on the underside of the clouds.
Harold Gatty
#38. ...Heard the rushing wind, saw through his tears: red and blue flaring light, and then he shut up and looked for it but found nothing.
Jason Heller
#39. I lost myself in her eyes. "I need you to know, you're my light in all this darkness. I don't want this to end."
She traced her finger along my lips. "Then don't die for me tomorrow. Live.
Lisa Kessler
#40. Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.
Jennifer Niven
#41. As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There
Penelope Wilcock
#42. I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
Alber Elbaz
#43. Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.
Dave Barry
#44. You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.
John C. Maxwell
#45. The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide,
But forth vnto the darksome hole he went,
And looked in:his glistring armor made
A litle glooming light, much like a shade,
Edmund Spenser
#46. Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.
Atom Egoyan
#47. The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.
Katherine McIntyre
#48. But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data - something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.
Silas House
#49. But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.
George Carey
#50. This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.
Sarah Dessen
#51. Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.
Aleister Crowley
#52. I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
James Rosenquist
#53. No matter how little your light is, let it shine
Saji Ijiyemi
#54. I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light and metal. Books used to be pretty high-tech, back in the day. Not anymore.
Robin Sloan
#55. Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
Isobelle Carmody
#57. By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.
John B. Arden
#58. Light takes darkness vanish and worlds reappear. Light opens each day with a blaring overture, then throws its wands to earth and casts diamonds on lakes and oceans. Each night, lights tricks make the stars seem alive.
Bruce Watson
#59. Every moment of the night
Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces
Edgar Allan Poe
#60. The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.
Nathan Goldstein
#61. It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Autistic people view the world in a different light, in ways many could never imagine.
Tina J. Richardson
#64. You can light these," I whispered to him. "I won't mind.
John Green
#65. Clams served on Quinnipeague were dug from the from the flats hours before cooking, and the batter, which was exquisitely light, held bits of parsley and thyme. Other fried clams couldn't compare.
Barbara Delinsky
#66. [ ... ] leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#67. A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.
Jose Rizal
#68. Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light.
Tyler Perry
#69. The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.
Rumi
#70. If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.
Ram Dass
#71. Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.
Paul Klee
#72. Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
Francis Bacon
#73. Circus performers and variety shows will never captivate me in the same way as steppes or rainforests, or the sky's uncountable galaxies and all the billions of light years that separate them.
Jostein Gaarder
#74. Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light.
Jeannette Walls
#75. Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
#76. It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.
Tony Evans
#77. I continued moving forward and found myself entering an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting. Pitch black as it was, it was also brimming over with light:
Eben Alexander
#78. But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
Sri Aurobindo
#79. Divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your spirit shines into it.
Nirmala Srivastava
#80. If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
Marianne Faithfull
#81. My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
Kim Elizabeth
#82. The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.
Janet Frame
#83. Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil," he said. "But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that.
Alison Croggon
#84. we try so hard to avoid the rest of the year: how do we deal with the God of darkness as well as the Giver of light?
Joan D. Chittister
#85. There are two types of spirits; either light or darkness.
Only one spirit (either light or darkness) operates at a time.
Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#86. But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
William Wordsworth
#88. All human existence is a trick of light.
Don DeLillo
#89. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton
#90. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
George Lillo
#91. The other dry shampoo I was using was wet feeling but I love Prive's smell and how light and airy my hair feels afterwards!
Sarah
#92. Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In
Yuval Noah Harari
#93. Somewhere, out at the edges, the night / Is turning and the waves of darkness / Begin to brighten the shore of dawn ... The heavy dark falls back to earth / And the freed air goes wild with light, / The heart fills with fresh, bright breath / And thoughts stir to give birth to colour
John O'Donohue
#94. If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.
Rolf Jacobsen
#96. Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.
Serena Smith
#97. God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.
Merritt Y. Hughes
#98. Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
Rumi
#99. For history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel History is now and England.
T. S. Eliot
#100. The superior human being will always see the light in someone and choose to encourage that light instead of dimming it.
Derek Hough
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