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Quotes About Light

He was a burning and a shining light.
~ Bible
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home - Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, - one step enough for me.
~ John Henry Newman
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
~ Ovid
Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.
~ Lila Green
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
~ Victor Hugo
Out of the scabbard of the night, By God's hand drawn, Flashes his shining sword of light, And lo, the dawn!
~ Frank Dempster Sherman
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
~ Emily Dickinson
Mozart is sunshine.
~ Antonin Dvorak
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
~ Alexander Pope
The sun gives us light, but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet.
~ Serge Bouchard
The Night has a thousand eyes, The Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.
~ Francis William Bourdillon
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
~ Lord Byron
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ Charles A. Beard
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
~ Robert Alden
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
~ Tennessee Williams
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
~ Helen Keller
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
~ Charles R. Brown
E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
~ Albert Einstein
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.
~ Daniel C. Gelman
I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
~ John Ruskin
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
~ Walt Whitman
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.
~ Anatole France