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Quotes About Light

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.
~ Leonard Sweet
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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~ Leonid Andreyev
Pero así cómo el ojo ve primero lo que está al sol y después con asombro y alegría descubre en la sombra un tesoro
~ Leonid Andreyev
When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books and the few other customers who graze head-bent in the narrow aisles. There's a clerk at the counter who stares out the front window, taking a breather before the evening rush. I've come to find a book.
~ Lewis Buzbee
Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!
~ Lewis Carroll
Je vois personne sur la route, dit Alice. Comme je voudrais avoir d'aussi bons yeux, remarqua le roi d'un ton amer. Voir Personne! Et à cette distance encore! Moi, tout ce dont je suis capable de voir, sous cette lumière, c'est des gens!
~ Lewis Carroll
I entered my room, and undrew the window-curtains, just in time to see the sun burst in glory from his ocean-prison, and clothe the world in the light of a new day.
~ Lewis Carroll
See the Sun is overhead
~ Lewis Carroll
there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she
~ Lewis Carroll
You can do without the day if you've a lamp quiet-lighted and kind in your heart.
~ Lewis Grassic Gibbon
I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
~ Libba Bray
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
~ Libba Bray
We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.
~ Libba Bray
And when I wake, the room is white with the morning sun. The light is so bright it hurts my eyes. But I don't dare close them. I won't. Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning, and there is so much to see.
~ Libba Bray
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die. He winks. But not without one hell of a fight.
~ Libba Bray
No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
~ Libba Bray
No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you... and you could change the magic.
~ Libba Bray