#Light Quotes

“What light through yonder window breaks?”

“Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light”

“The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”

“We should hold day with the Antipodes,If you would walk in absence of the sun.”

“The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.”

“You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.”

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

“If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flowerI will pitch my tent in your shadow.Only your presence revives my withered heart.You are the candle that lights the whole worldand I am an empty vessel for your light.”

“If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.”

“Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.”

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

“Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

“From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.”

“Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.”

“Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.”

“It is not night when I do see your face.”

“The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”

“When the night is darkest, the stars come out.”

“The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.”

“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”

“To love beauty is to see light.”

“The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.”

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”

“Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.”

“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

“Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.”

“Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.”

“For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.”

“Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.”

“In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”

“Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.”

“Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.”

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”

“I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.”

“I am sunlight slicing the dark.”

“If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.”

“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”

“I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light.”

“It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.”

“Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.”

“A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.”

“No mirror ever became iron again;No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.”

“Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.”

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.”

“In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”

“If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.”

“In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”