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Quotes About Light

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
~ John of the Cross
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
~ Louis Kahn
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light
~ Zoroaster
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.
~ Aleister Crowley
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
~ Pythagoras
I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.
~ Douglas Malloch
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
~ Plato
This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
~ Khalil Gibran
Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.
~ Larry Norman
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
~ Robert Schumann
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He was forty-seven years old but in dim light could have passed for thirty.
~ Neal Stephenson
Far to the east, just above the horizon, was an especially big dot of light, like the clasp on a necklace. That would be the colossal structure of the Eye, currently stationed above the Atlantic.
~ Neal Stephenson
For a fraction of a second he was a yellow blossom of flame in the stream of light, and then he was one with it. All that remained of what he'd been was a wisp of steam coiling above the torrent of fire.
~ Neal Stephenson
The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.
~ Neal Stephenson
As his heart's rapid drumbeat slowed, Andreas took in the richness of the forest. An endless number of drifting motes outlined beams of sunlight that cut between the trees like blessings from Heaven. We are these specks of dust, he reflected, and it is the design of the Divine Light that brings us together. We cannot see the whole of the Light, but in our passing, we give it form.
~ Neal Stephenson
As the sun went down on the opposite side of the world, the light on the New Jersey horizon focused to a steady, lambent core the color of a flashlight when you shine it through the palm of your hand under the bedsheets. Lawrence
~ Neal Stephenson
The snow moved a little and gave me a void in front of my face - air for a moment. Most importantly it kept me from panicking, and let me open my eyes. There was a dim blue-grey light. I could hear Arsibalt saying Just enough to read by! and Lio answering If only you'd thought to bring a book.
~ Neal Stephenson
his mind pleasantly intoxicated from exhaustion, Daniel experienced a faint echo of what it must be like, all the time, to be Isaac Newton: a permanent ongoing epiphany, an endless immersion in lurid radiance, a drowning in light, a ringing of cosmic harmonies in the ears.
~ Neal Stephenson