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Quotes About Light

The days of the future stand in fornt of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles The days that are past are left behind
~ Cavafy
We are living creatures rich in the Force, with everything that brings. Joy, affection, and, yes, grief. Experiencing such emotions is part of life. It is light.... But while we experience such emotions, we should never let them rule us. A Jedi is the master of their emotions, never a slave.
~ Cavan Scott
When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up)
~ Cecelia Ahern
Art is like a light to me, illuminating the darkest corners of everything.
~ Cecelia Ahern
When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.
~ Celia Rees
remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.
~ Chabon, Michael
I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.
~ Chaim Potok
I wish that your journey will be to a light not only for yourself but for all of us. I wish that it will be a journey for the sake of heaven. I give you my blessing, Asher Lev.
~ Chaim Potok
I call that ambiguity," I said. "Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same things. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That's what I'm trying to capture in my art. That's what I mean by ambiguity.
~ Chaim Potok
The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.
~ Charlaine Harris
Sookie, it is not your blood I love. I love you. Your heart, your mind, your soul... you have brought light back into my life
~ Charlaine Harris
The queen is ... busy, Wybert said. When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine. He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door. So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.
~ Charlaine Harris
No, I don't think so. There was still plenty of light. I got there at
~ Charlaine Harris
Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage, Traversé çà et là par de brillants de soleils; Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage, Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.
~ Greig Fraser
I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
~ Don Rickles
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
~ Bill Hicks
We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. We
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It isn't necessary to run away or abandon our present home and look for an illusory home, a so-called paradise that is really just a shadow of happiness. When we produce faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and insight in our power plants, we realize that our true home is already filled with light and power.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Practice love on yourself. When you succeed, loving another person becomes very natural. Your love will be like a lamp that shines; it will make many, many people happy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you think, The sun of awareness has gone out in me, at that moment it relights itself, faster than the speed of light.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh