Light Quotes
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
William Butler Yeats
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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola Tesla
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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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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...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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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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In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
John Ruskin
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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
David Bowie
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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
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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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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
Gautama Buddha
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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
Ethan Canin
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With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
Michael Jackson
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
Emily Dickinson
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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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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
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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.
Carrie Fisher
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Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
Elena Ferrante
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What darkness to you is light to me.
Jules Verne
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Love is the light that casts no shadow.
Elizabeth Lowell
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
Helen Keller
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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is.
Haruki Murakami