Light Quotes

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

Sven Nykvist

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Irish Proverb

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

Michael Strassfeld

A diamond kite On a diamond flight. Over the lights, under the moon. Over the lights, under the moon. Over the moon, over the moon!

Kate Bush

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen

The only goal is in the process. The process is the thingwith little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But its the life in betweenthats all I got.

Jeff Buckley

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

I light my candle from their torches.

Robert Burton
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