Light Quotes
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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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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
Marianne Williamson
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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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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
Helen Keller
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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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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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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'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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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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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
Paul Gauguin
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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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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola Tesla
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Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.
Winfield Scott
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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
Brennan Manning
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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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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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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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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
Emily Dickinson
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
Elizabeth Wein
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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