Light Quotes

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Arthur Baldwin

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

There are two ways of passing from this world - One in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

Bhagavad Gita

Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.

Henry C. Blinn

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Isaac Asimov

The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Robert Hutchins

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.

Batman

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Eugene Ionesco

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.

C. V. R. Thompson

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Julie Burchill

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.

John Quinton

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Jordan, Robert

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus