Light Quotes

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

lovers alone wear sunlight.

E. e. cummings

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Jack Kerouac

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

Lao Tzu

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

N. P. Willis

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Old Chinese Prove

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.

Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Carl Zwanzig

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carte

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

You have delighted us long enough.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.

John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

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

Spanish Prove

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Cato the Elde

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Albert Camus