Quotes About Light

I walk into what light there is — Mark Strand, from "Another Place," Collected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 2014)

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.

Wit is the only wallBetween us and the dark.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

Light tomorrow with today!

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

The future projects light, the past only clouds

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

Taking back our light from those we've projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.