Quotes About Light

Fear, which blights life and darkens death, is killed by love, as the cloud is dispersed by the sunshine.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

Childbirth is full of optimism, full of light, of faith in Christ, of battling and overcoming.

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

Light is all memory.

Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Most painters do the opposite, starting with a whitewash and adding the shadows last. But Paul, who knows Leonardo so well you'd thing the old man slept on the bottom bunk, understands the value of starting with the shadows. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones you let them see.

the reshaping of his self-image also reflected how his supporters were beginning to see their leader. His followers portrayed him, in fact, as Germany's 'heroic' leader before he came to see himself in that light.

Escape, son, may not be the way," says Mr. Spider. "It would be reassuring if everything was finally reducible to Light versus Darkness, Order versus Chaos, Good versus Evil. However, life is not pulp fantasy. If the Way were easy, what virtue would there be in following it? The teaching of the Daishi is that the Way does not lie in escape, or even in defeating.

He fell to his knees, and as the twin arcologies reduced him to nothing, he also came out of his annihilated anonymity to realize that he was special, he was unique, that his light shone brighter than all the million glowworm windows, for he alone knew nothing.

Closer yet, and she saw that it was a wall of black bricks clean and smooth as obsidian, perfectly adamantine, perfectly untouchable. "Up we go, up we go," she whistled to herself, and as she did, she noticed how the light caught the obsidian bricks at just such an angle that each brick seemed to have a face carved upon it. A wall of souls.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

Nearest we get to the sun here is when the toaster's on.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty.

I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)

Ningún color viene después del negro.

Mientras la lámpara interna de las joyas siga encendida, apresúrate a despabilar su mecha y suministrarle aceite.

Valiente es el ladrón que lleva una lámpara en su mano.

Si está lo suficientemente oscuro, una vela es suficiente.