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Quotes About Light

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. Were it not for darkness, and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, and there was not an eye to behold them.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.
~ Lynn Johnston
In your light I learn how to love.
~ Rumi
If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
~ Marianne Williamson
This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love, that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
He who love touches walks not in darkness.
~ Plato
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
~ Jack Kerouac
The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.
~ James Lane Allen
Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.
~ Kim Addonizio
Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine
~ Julie Garwood, Guardian Angel
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
~ Anatole France
Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.
~ John Donne
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are a being composed of light, love, and intelligence.
~ Doreen Virtue
cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
~ Fanny Kemble
The light of a whole life dies When love is gone.
~ Francis William Bourdillon
Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and suddenly there is no thought.
~ Frederick Lenz
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
~ George Gilder
Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.
~ Hafsat Abiola
Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.
~ Jack Canfield
With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show There's light above me by the shade I throw.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier