Light Quotes
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And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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
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How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Brad Warner
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Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.
Elizabeth Evatt
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In cyberspace things are built out of light.
Terence McKenna
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The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
Charles Dickens
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I am interested in the physicality of light itself.
James Turrell
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God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
Thomas Aquinas
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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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Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe...
John Lennon The Beatles
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For an instant she seemed to be nothing more than light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
Regina Spektor
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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
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Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.
Haruki Murakami
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The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.
Isaac Marion
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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
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You get to the point where you can feel a certain sensation of light.
Arthur Dove
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The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness.
Brandon Mull
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The light that moves is not the light. The light that stays is not the light. The true light rose countless sleeps ago. It rose, even in the mouth of birds.
Andre Alexis
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Research on conversion has demonstrated that, long after such an experience, a convert tends to confuse what actually happened in light of everything that occurs in its aftermath. That is to say, years later, the accounts people tell, to both themselves and others, have been slanted by all they have learned, thought, and experienced in the interim.
Bart Ehrman
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The world spins along outside, the sun rises and sets, the streets go dark, the lights come on. The future is happening, but it can wait until tomorrow. Neither of us knows what will come next, or where we go from here, or even what anyone will say about us, but none of it matters. We’ve got each other right now.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy