Light Quotes

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

~ John O'donohue

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

~ Thomas Moore

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

~ Richard Dean Anderson

The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.

~ Molly Holzschlag

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

~ Desmond Tutu

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

~ Michael Morpurgo

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

~ Connor Franta

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

~ Vin Scully

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.

~ Mother Angelica

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

~ Billy Corgan

To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.

~ Dave Gahan

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

~ Frei Otto

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

~ Mitt Romney

In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

~ Audre Lorde

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

~ Richard Leakey

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

~ Yoko Ono

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

~ Cat Stevens

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

~ Shuji Nakamura

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

Give light and people will find the way.

~ Ella Baker

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

~ John O'donohue

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

~ Kim Elizabeth

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

~ Federico Fellini

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

~ Walter Scott

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

~ Junot Díaz

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

~ Josh Gad

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

~ Jen Lancaster

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

~ Zach Anner

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

~ Richard Lagravenese

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

~ Michael Leunig

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther King

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

~ Conor Oberst

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

~ Helen Keller

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

~ Sri Chinmoy

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

~ Maya Angelou

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

~ Marion Jones