Light Quotes

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

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

Eugene Ionesco

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

Newt Gingrich

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

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

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Henry Watton

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

Dag Hammarskjld

Daylight follows a dark night.

Maasai Prove

The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.

Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

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

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

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

Michel de Montaigne

More light! Give me more light!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker, book review

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley

What is to give light must endure burning.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

John Claypool

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

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

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.

Carl Jung