Light Quotes
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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The light of morning decomposes everything.
Haruki Murakami
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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Death to the killers, bringing light to life.
Stephen Spender
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I sort of see cannabis as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
Terence McKenna
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Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
Eric Metaxas
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What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.
Ben Lerner
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
Regina Spektor
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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
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
Helen Keller
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
Isaac Watts
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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
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.
Michael Eric Dyson
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
Ansel Adams
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
Paul Gauguin
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God wants to light your way.
Joseph Prince
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Victor Hugo
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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The fears of a few seconds ago seem unfounded, as nightmares always do when the light comes back on.
Erin Kelly
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
Blaise Pascal
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Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?
Edward Robert Harrison
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe