Light Quotes
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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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...you don't have to know just what people are doing and feeling to be of assistance to them. Your own life seems to you like a very small lighted room, with great darkness all around it, and you can't see out into the darkness and know what is happening there. But light and warmth from your room can go out into the darkness if you don't have the windows selfishly curtained, keep a brave fire burning, and light all the happy candles you can.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
Carrie Jones
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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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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
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
Albert Camus
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
William Butler Yeats
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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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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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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I am interested in the physicality of light itself.
James Turrell
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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
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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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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
David Bowie
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I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
Stefan Edberg
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The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness.
Brandon Mull
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I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright.
Eyedea
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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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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
Ethan Canin
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What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?
Christian Harrison
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Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
Charles Demuth
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
Terence McKenna
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin