Light Quotes - page 21

Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. (Thomas Gray)
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. View quote
Thomas Gray
Oh for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb. View quote
William Cowper
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. View quote
Georg Brandes
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future. View quote
Elon Musk
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light - every eye looking on finds its own. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. View quote
Jacques Ellul
[Beauty is] "Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness." View quote
Walter Russell
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness! (James Freeman Clarke)
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past! View quote
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved. View quote
A. J. Muste
The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. View quote
Abraham Isaac Kook
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light. View quote
Abraham Isaac Kook
The gladsome light of jurisprudence. View quote
Edward Coke
In the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime. View quote
John Bowring
You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it. View quote
Shannon Leto
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
At my back I hear the word-”homosexual”-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world. View quote
John Cheever
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere. (Olaf Stapledon)
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
The light has gone out of my life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt