What Light Quotes

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?

God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

First you believe, and then you see the Light. Next you go towards the Light. Soon you are IN the Light. Now you ARE the Light.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

"Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other than the selfless light existing in our innermost depths.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.

It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.

People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.