Light Quotes

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

Love, Allah, Fire

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Men, Woman

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Truth, Courage, May

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot

Darkness, Shall, Dancing

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Evil, Person, Through

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Night, Rather, Troubles

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Speak, Dumb, Troubles

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare

Wise, Heaven, Intellect

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Rain, Fire

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

Art, Sunshine, Expression

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson

God, Fighting, Become

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Richard Bach

Different, Same, Study

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Layne Staley

Life, Suffering, Won

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Two, Soul

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn, Less, Suffer

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Age, Experience, Youth

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake

Become, Face, Star

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov

Science, Single, Anywhere

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Cause, Wrongs, Benefits

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne

Confidence, Integrity, Honesty

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

Beautiful, Old, Last

I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo

Love, God, Live

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli

Learning, Liberty, Place

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

Hope, Able, Darkness

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Soren Kierkegaard

Good, Great, Death

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Spike Milligan

God, Said, Wait

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods

Life, Positive, Person

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Fame, Solid, River

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams

Rude, Action, Stand

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