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Quotes About Light

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
~ Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
~ Emily Dickinson
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
~ Edmund Waller
When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.
~ Frederick Lenz
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
~ Stephen King, Carrie
The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.
~ Wendy Beck, 9th Life
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday
~ Dylan Thomas
Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
~ Robert Townsend
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
~ Michele Bachmann
Everyday's a battle against; everyday's a fight for. Everyday is collaged with shadows cast in everyday's sunrise. Everyday is a new chance.
~ Debby Ryan
He said, aloud, 'The external world is the world of shadows. It throws its shadows into the kingdom of light. How different they will appear when this darkness is gone and the shadow-body has passed away. The universe, after all, is within us. The way leads inward, always inwards.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
I'm afraid I'm not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.' 'Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they'll adapt little by little.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There
~ Unknown
Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I'm trying so hard to get there.
~ Unknown
Your enemy is not a Baptist, Pentecostal, or charismatic—your enemy is a destroyer of souls called Satan and his spirit rebels (Eph. 6:12). You can't fight right unless you're in the light—and the light is the Word of God.
~ Unknown
My grandmother's hands floated like wings of bone in the dark, then they were birds, then small disks of light and then bones again, and then it was dawn.
~ Unknown
Had I been a witness to a memory of hers so terrible that it could only be said to me, an eleven-year-old, half delirious with fever, lying in bed between darkness and light? My grandmother had spoken so emphatically that day, in clipped, deliberate speech, as if to say, 'This is a moment to listen.
~ Unknown
autumn leaves and earth. She wondered if Margo might be willing to drive down to Maine with her for one last holiday. October light was gorgeous at the beach and they could have a
~ Peter Behrens
The clouds was light but queerly yellow on their edges as they moved across the ageless constellations.
~ Peter Carey