Light Quotes - page 6

For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. (Robert Browning)
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. View quote
Richard Bach
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. View quote
George Harrison
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. View quote
Matthew Arnold
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. View quote
François Fénelon
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in. View quote
Alan Alda
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. View quote
John Banville
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. (Thomas Browne)
How fleet is a glance of the mind Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. View quote
William Cowper
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. View quote
William Cowper
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. View quote
George Herbert
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries. View quote
John Tyndall
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. View quote
Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. View quote
Francis Bacon
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. View quote
John Muir
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. View quote
Helen Keller
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. (Helen Keller)
Knowledge is love and light and vision. View quote
Helen Keller
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! View quote
Mariah Carey
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. View quote
Louis Aragon