Quotes About Light

I liked the myth elements of Christmas. The way in which its origins reach back far beyond Jesus, to the rituals of people unknown to us. The celebration of the winter solstice. The coming of light in the darkest time.

I have wandered in a face, for hours,Passing through dark fires.I have risen to a bodyNot yet born,Existing like a light around the body,Through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

Through such souls aloneGod stooping shows sufficient of His lightFor us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Stalin, as many in the party soon began to perceive, was acting in the manner of a political boss. But we should take care not to assume that he saw himself in this light.

Turk tried to study the crowd of Fourths, but the light was behind them and they weren't much more than silhouettes.

Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch, a man may use instead the ebb and flow of light and dark. Lacking, however, a window through which to see such movement, the reliance must be devolved upon some inner mechanism of the mind. But if the mind has received a shock, the mechanism is disturbed, and time becomes as the ground is to a drunkard, variable.

You can at least say this for the blackout, he thought, it has given us back the stars.

By this time it was after half past three. The winter light was fading. Beyond

In the clear late-autumn light, the forests were a profusion of reds and golds, interrupted occasionally by large patches of black, like holes burnt in a Turkish carpet.

How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?

Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the Biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and Biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.

There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain

Till Shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day. By my honor and the Light, my life will be a dagger for Sightblinder's heart. Until the Last Day, To Shayol Ghul itself.

Light, Egwene thought. I wonder how long it's been since a meeting of this scale occurred.

The pale sun sat above the trees to the east, but its light was crisply dark, as if mixed with shadow. It was an awkward morning, made for unpleasant thoughts.

Light, but a man could drown in those eyes and be happy doing it.

The Light shine on you, Lord Ingtar of House Shinowa, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand." He touched Ingtar's shoulder. "The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.