Light Quotes
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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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O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
Mother Teresa
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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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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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I am interested in the physicality of light itself.
James Turrell
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There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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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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Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
Elena Ferrante
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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
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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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The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
Brigham Young
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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
David Bowie
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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!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Remorse is memory awake.
Emily Dickinson
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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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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
Elizabeth Wein
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Walk in the light so you can see where you're going.
Eleazar
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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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The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
Charles Dickens
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These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
Terence McKenna
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Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.
Mariah Carey
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C'mon baby light for me!
Cody Lundin
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
Catherynne M. Valente