Light Quotes
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
Thomas Aquinas
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The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.
Elizabeth Chadwick -
By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
Edmond Jabes -
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin -
So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".
Tommy Cooper -
Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
Haruki Murakami -
The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.
Casey Kasem
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Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
Elena Ferrante -
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
Esther Williams -
The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.
Simone de Beauvoir -
For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover us, ye counters! When other hands the scales shall hold, And they, in men's and angels' sight Produced with all their bills and gold, 'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'
Jonathan Swift -
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.
Walt Whitman -
God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell.
Alan Russell
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In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.
Ezra Pound -
I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
Christopher Bollen -
Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter.
Rumi -
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
William Morris Hunt -
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way.
Nichiren
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot -
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
Philip James Bailey -
I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.
Raphael Saadiq -
Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
Catherynne M. Valente