Light Quotes
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October 17th Sunday Dresden I am by the fire with not another light but it … It is now after 5. All was dark excep the fire. I lay by it and listened to the wind and thought of the times at home in the country when I lay by the fire with some hickory nuts until like the slave who Again he is king by the banks of the niger Again he can hear the wild roar of the tiger Again I was lying by the roaring fire (with the cold October wind shrieking outside) in the cheerful lighted room and I turned around half expecting to see it all again and stern reality forced itself upon me and I thought of the time that would come never, never, never.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
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With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
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The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!
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Love is the light that casts no shadow.
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Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
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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.
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C'mon baby light for me!
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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.
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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.
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We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
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All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
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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.
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Walk in the light so you can see where you're going.
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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
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What darkness to you is light to me.
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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
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Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.