Light Quotes

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

~ Claire Danes

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

~ Mary Shelley

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

~ Victor Hugo

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

~ Edvard Munch

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

~ James Russell Lowell

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

~ George Fox

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

~ John Hines

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

~ Art Linkletter

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

~ Reba Mcentire

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

~ Robert Schumann

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

~ Truman Capote

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.

~ Leon Theremin

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

~ Florenz Ziegfeld

When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.

~ Greg Lake

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

~ Anthony Trollope

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

~ James A. Michener

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

~ Jean Paul

At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

~ Gary Johnson

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

~ Gregory Maguire

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

~ Sri Aurobindo

The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!

~ Abhishek Bachchan

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

~ Jane Porter

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

~ David O. Mckay

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

~ David Hockney

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

~ Shilpa Shetty

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

~ Rory Mcilroy

You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today's going to be a drama day.' Things happen in life that are fun and light, and things happen that are heavier. You just have to move your way through life, and I think 'BoJack' is a good reflection of that.

~ Will Arnett

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

~ Drake

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

~ Max Muller

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

~ Ellsworth Kelly

I start off my morning with an Acai berry smoothie. I blend the Acai berries with kefir, blueberries, protein powder and peanut butter. I like this first thing in the morning because it's light on my stomach.

~ Charity Shea

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

~ Maya Angelou

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

~ Christian Louboutin

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

~ Charles Spurgeon

I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.

~ Christy Turlington