Quotes About Light

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic

your smile is my sunshine.

A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

May I ask you something? Dr Greysteel nodded.Are you not afraid that it will go out? What will go out? asked Dr Greysteel. The candle, Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. The candle inside your head.

One day, he said,I shall find the right spell and banish the Darkness And on that day I will come to you.

There was a coldness, it seemed to me, beyond her years, in her smiling melancholy persistent refusal to afford me the least ray of light. I cannot say we quarreled upon this point, for she would not quarrel upon any. It was, of course, very unfair of me to press her, very ill-bred, but I really could not help it; and I might just as well have let it alone. What she did tell me amounted, in my unconscionable estimation--to nothing.

Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

The fun had been so bland, so lightly handled, that its essential quality, its ruthlessness, had not been apparent.

The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious.

Just as the yin-yang symbol possesses a kernel of light in the dark, and of dark in the light, creative leaps are grounded in a technical foundation.

Our hurts are heavy, and we let them sink. Every day they drift lower, settling in murky places where the light can't reach.

He kept his head down and slowly worked himself, word by word, back into communion with the other hours, days, years - there was in fact no name for this particular unit of time - that together formed a continuum of unawareness that was as close to transcendence ash e would come. He was working himself, as if with a spade in a tunnel that finally yields to light, out of the physical world.

Jesus calls his disciples to exert a double influence by bringing light into its darkness. For it is one thing to stop the spread of evil; it is another to promote the spread of truth, beauty and goodness.

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

The moon, now only a series of pale-white dots against a light-blue background, would fill out a grow bright, exercising its dominion over the night.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

Sam and Elizabeth met as people usually meet. Suddenly, there was a deceptive light in the darkness. A light that blackly reminded the lonely of the darkness.

Sam and Elizabeth met as people usually meet. Suddenly, there was a deceptive light in the darkness. A light that reminded the lonely blackly of the darkness.

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

No experience is so terrifying, I've always said, once you turn on the light, and take a hard, clear look at the thing that most terrifies you.

No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

By the light of your stars, heal me.

No matter how hard I fight to stay "in the light," I will have some darkness in my life. This is as sure as the patter of sunrise and sunset in the natural course of the day.