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Quotes About Light

Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.
~ George Harrison
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
~ Samuel Richardson
Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?
~ Sholem Asch
When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.
~ Shorty Rogers
Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within.
~ Terry Taylor
In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
~ Theodore Roethke
The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.
~ Timur Bekmambetov
Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.
~ William Camden
Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.
~ Juliet Marillier
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
~ Lucretius
A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
~ Nan Goldin
The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
~ Mark Twain
He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.
~ Mark Twain
Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night.
~ Mark Twain
he got up and moved in clouds and darkness out at one door as she brought song and sunshine in at the other.
~ Mark Twain
We had a succession of black nights, going up the river, and it was observable that whenever we landed, and suddenly inundated the trees with the intense sunburst of the electric light, a certain curious effect was always produced: hundreds of birds flocked instantly out from the masses of shining green foliage, and went careering hither and thither through the white rays, and often a song-bird tuned up and fell to singing.
~ Mark Twain
Light them both —I'll have to have one to see the other by.
~ Mark Twain
I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. It's probably not even real.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Some people reflect light Some deflect it You by some miracle Seem to collect it
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
What we see, how we see and what in turn we can't see. Over and over again, in one form or another, he returns to the subject of light, space, shape, line, color, focus, tone, contrast, movement, rhythm, perspective and composition.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski