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Quotes About Light

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
~ Claude Monet
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
~ Plotinus
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
~ Thomas Fuller
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
~ Sappho
Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
~ Robert Adams
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~ Anais Nin
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
~ Unknown
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
~ Rumi
The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.
~ David Swing
Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.
~ Mike Murdock
Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
~ Junichirô Tanizaki
Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.
~ Sam Storms
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.
~ Adyashanti
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
~ Madeline Miller
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
~ Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair
But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
~ Marianne Williamson
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
~ Ansel Adams
and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.
~ Wendy Mass
Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
~ Philip José Farmer
...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
~ John Keats