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Quotes About Light

Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters.
~ Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
~ zola emile iii
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Die hellen Tage behalte ich, die dunklen gebe ich dem Schicksal zurück.
~ Zsuzsa Bánk
Like the hills under dusk you fall away from the light: you deepen: the green light darkens and you are nearly lost: only so much light as stars keep manifests your face: I feel the total night in myself rave for the light along your lips.
~ A.R. Ammons
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
When all work is brought to a standstill, the candles are lit. Just as creation began with the word, Let there be light ! so does the celebration of creation begin with the kindling of lights. It is the woman who ushers in the joy and sets up the most exquisite symbol, light, to dominate the atmosphere of the home.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
There are five incomplete phenomena (or unripe fruits). The incomplete experience of death is sleep; an incomplete form of prophecy is dream; the incomplete form of the world to come is the Sabbath; the incomplete form of the heavenly light is the orb of the sun; the incomplete form of heavenly wisdom is the Torah.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Gentlemen, reading from speeches is a very tedious business, particularly for an old man that has to put on spectacles, and more so if the man be so tall that he has to bend over to the light.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
~ Adam Gopnik
is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew the Masques, and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so Stately, and daintily, as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearle, that sheweth best by day: But it will not rise to the price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure.
~ Adam Nicolson
held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.
~ Adriana Trigiani
And when the moon is full and there's a lot of light, it overpowers the sparkle of the stars, so you think they're gone. But they're there. In science, the only concept you can prove is that things always change. But the truth is, they also stay the same.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
~ Aerosmith
The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.
~ Aeschylus
The moon slipped down into the frame of the window and reached an arm of pure light through the glass.
~ Aimee Bender
In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.
~ Al Burian
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter.
~ Alan Ayckbourn
Aum?kua of the night, watch over your offspring, enfold them in the belt of light.
~ Alan Brennert
Rachel smiled, somehow no longer afraid, and went back to bed: surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light.
~ Alan Brennert
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
~ Alan Cohen
Forgiveness doesn't make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.
~ Alan Cohen
La fe es el pájaro que siente la luz y canta cuando todavía no ha amanecido».
~ Alan Cohen
Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.
~ Alan Dean Foster