What Light Quotes

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.

Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

Live in rooms full of light.

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

The angels of God are bright and shining beings, emanating light and mirroring the glory of God.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

There is light somewhere.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.