Light Quotes

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

Dag Hammarskjld

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carte

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Prove

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Taylor Benson

I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.

Tom Fitzgerald

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Henry Ward Beeche

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Josh Billings

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

G. K. Chesterton

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko Yoshida

Put out the light.

Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Marquis de Sade

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike