Light Quotes

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

~ Victor Hugo

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

~ John Ruskin

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

~ Evelyn Underhill

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

~ Tim O'brien

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

~ Adam Gopnik

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

~ Florence Welch

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

~ George Sand

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

~ Francisco Goya

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

~ Robert Schumann

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

~ Eddie Vedder

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

~ Robert Delaunay

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

~ John Berger

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

~ Morrissey

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

~ Helen Keller

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

~ Galina Vishnevskaya

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

~ Jessye Norman

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

~ Aurora

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

~ Zac Brown

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn't really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

~ Thomas Gibson

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

~ Craig Venter

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

~ William Shatner

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

~ Jeff Bridges

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

~ Ren Ng

My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.

~ Emilie De Ravin

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

~ Michele Bachmann

Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

~ Denise Vasi

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

~ Shakti Gawain

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

~ Yehuda Berg

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

~ Gary Johnson

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

~ Penn Jillette

Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees.

~ John Lasseter

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

~ David Chase

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

~ Ellen G. White

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

~ Marianne Williamson

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

~ Tori Amos

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

~ Tom Robbins

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

~ Douglas Coupland