What Light Quotes

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

Why look in the dark for light?

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new place, Another life.

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Amiability shines by its own light.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.

To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.