Light Quotes - page 5

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead. View quote
John Burdett
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. View quote
William Ellery Channing
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The prayer of Ajax was for light. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is to give light must endure burning. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. (Georges Rouault)
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. View quote
Christian Dior
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. View quote
Robert E. Lee
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. View quote
Robert E. Lee
The men of England, the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. View quote
Edmund Burke
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. View quote
Wallace Stevens
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. View quote
Henry James
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir, what is poetry Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. View quote
Dylan Thomas
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. (Emil Cioran)
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way. View quote
Barry Commoner
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at... View quote
Mitch Hedberg