Light Quotes - page 9

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. (Franz Kafka)
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
The speed of light sucks. View quote
John D. Carmack
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let there be light said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. View quote
Isaac Newton
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. View quote
Isaac Newton
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. View quote
Edward Abbey
Education is the movement from darkness to light. View quote
Allan Bloom
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. (Ronald Reagan)
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. View quote
Michael Connelly
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. View quote
Martha Beck
In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us. View quote
Melinda Gates
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel. View quote
Peter Zumthor
How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! [...] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light! View quote
Pu Songling
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. View quote
Robert Carlyle
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? View quote
Anthony Doerr
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. View quote
Shakti Gawain
Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap. (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it. View quote
David Almond
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. View quote
James Hillman
There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks. View quote
Jonathan Maberry
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment. View quote
Edna O'Brien