Light Quotes

Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

~ Nadège Richards

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.

~ Baldassarre Castiglione

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

~ Giordano Bruno

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many...

~ William Bradford

There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things…Choose a place where you won’t do very much harm and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

~ E.m. Forster

Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

~ Tom Giaquinto

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

~ David Levithan

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.

~ Jane Mendelsohn

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

~ David Wroblewski

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.

~ Alice Hoffman

...And we left the lightfor the night of the street

~ Pierre Albert-Birot

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

~ Criss Jami

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned off so that in the silence we can hear the tragic truth of the Gospel, which is that the world where God is absent is a dark and echoing emptiness; and the comic truth of the Gospel, which is that it is into the depths of his absence that God makes himself present in such unlikely ways and to such unlikely people that old Sarah and Abraham and maybe when the time comes even Pilate and Job and Lear and Henry Ward Beecher and you and I laugh till the tears run down our cheeks. And finally let him preach this overwhelming of tragedy by comedy, of darkness by light, of the ordinary by the extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it that catch of the breath, that beat and lifting of the heart near to or even accompanied by tears, which I believe is the deepest intuition of truth that we have.

~ Frederick Buechner

I chose the light amidst the lurking darkness. I chose calmness and stillness among a crowd bathing in chaos. I chose happiness over screaming negativity around and I chose to be ME over the temptation of being like somebody else.

~ Elizabeth E. Castillo

ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypesThe sketcher washes with the hand-towel of the skyAll is color spotsAnd the hats of the women passing by are comets in the conflagration of the eveningUnity There's no more unityAll the clocks now read midnight after being set back ten minutesThere's no more time.There's no more money.In the ChamberThey are spoiling the marvelous elements of raw material(Contrasts)

~ Blaise Cendrars

All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light, planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)

~ Amy Leach

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

~ Julia Green

In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops. in the poem Beyond the Beacon from Terra Affirmative.

~ Jay Woodman

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

~ Anthony Liccione

Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam.

~ Jay Woodman

Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

~ Jay Woodman

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

~ John Milton

. . .after the shadows comes light.

~ Tobin Wilson

ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light

~ Sonia Delaunay

You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter what move you make. If my grandmother and Marissa died tonight, it would be because I had stayed in the darkness too long, flirting with the idea of being Cedric's consigliere. If that happened, I could never live with myself- but if Cedric gave me the bite as he planned, I would be forced to live with it forever. That was the worst hell I could imagine.

~ Neal Shusterman

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history and daylight have arrived.That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form.

~ Victor Hugo

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

~ Brené Brown

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

~ Dan Millman

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.

~ Henry Miller

Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.

~ Rachael Bermingham

...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

~ John Geddes

I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are nothing that I ever expected... I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.

~ Beth Revis

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

~ Aberjhani

...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...

~ John Geddes

She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days.

~ J. Sterling