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Quotes About Light

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
~ Edward Abbey
Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed. Smile on our loves.… In the mixture of starlight and cloud-reflected sunlight in which the desert world is now illuminated, each single object
~ Edward Abbey
Noontime here is like a drug. The light is psychedelic, the dry electric air narcotic. To me the desert is stimulating, exciting, exacting
~ Edward Abbey
Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed. Smile on our loves.…
~ Edward Abbey
The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
~ Edward Abbey
Stars which are unusually bold and close, with an icy glitter in their light—glints of blue, emerald, gold.
~ Edward Abbey
One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
~ Edward Abbey
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
~ Edward Abbey
It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.
~ Edward Albee
I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire.
~ Edward Burne-Jones
I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define or remember, only desire - and the forms divinely beautiful - and then I wake up, with the waking of Brynhild.
~ Edward Burne-Jones
Tastes great, less filling.
~ Anonymous
I climbed up the door and opened the stairs, Said my pajamas and put on my prayers, Then I turned off the bed and crawled into the light All because you kissed me goodnight!
~ Anonymous
To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.
~ Anonymous
Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights.
~ Anonymous
When Jesus comes, the shadows depart.
~ Anonymous
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.
~ Anonymous
Autumn stars shine through gaps in the wall.... [H]e... brews midnight tea by the stove's ruddy light.
~ Anonymous
A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.
~ Anonymous
All the powers of darkness vanish; Christ our Day-Star mounts the skies.
~ Anonymous
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.
~ Anonymous
There shall be no night there.
~ Anonymous
In brightest day, in blackest night,No evil shall escape my sight.Let those who worship evil's mightBeware my power, Green Lantern's light!
~ Anonymous
I wish I was a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
~ Anonymous