Light Quotes
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Marcel Proust -
In cyberspace things are built out of light.
Terence McKenna
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
William Butler Yeats -
I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.
Elizabeth Scott -
The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.
Martin Luther -
Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.
Nick Stone -
It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
Michael Chang -
Because you didn’t need words when you were sitting in the light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Etienne Gilson -
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
Rene Descartes -
The Neo-Impressionist does not stipple, he divides. And dividing involves... guaranteeing all benefits of light.
Paul Signac -
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 -
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Love is the light that casts no shadow.
Elizabeth Lowell
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No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
Arthur Helps -
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
Esaias Tegner -
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
Catherine Opie -
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.
Haruki Murakami -
If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you.
Christine Caine
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The light of morning decomposes everything.
Haruki Murakami -
It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.
Ellen Kushner -
So they made tamales and Ileana mostly made a mess, but she laughed all day and she was so happy and beautiful and Andrés thought that whatever her heart was made of, it burned, and it was the only light in the house that mattered.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.
Ezra G. Levin