Light Quotes
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
Anne Carson
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Gautama Buddha
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It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen
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Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?
Gautama Buddha
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Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.
James Turrell
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Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.
John Sexton
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It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.
Beth Revis
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Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
Anna Held
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.
Sophocles
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Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.
Lene Hau
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Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.
John Cusack
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It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
James Turrell
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand
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I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
Van Morrison
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The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.
Nancy Hale
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He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.
Earl Nightingale
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
Nadine Gordimer
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For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.
Lynsey Addario
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
Yann Martel