LIGHT QUOTES II

quotations about light

Light is God's first law.

VEDA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Against the darkness outer
God's light his likeness takes,
And he from the mighty doubter
The great believer makes.

R. W. GILDER

The New Day


Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE

Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs


No one can live in the light all the time.

LIBBA BRAY

A Great and Terrible Beauty


Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

BIBLE

John 12:35


More light!

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

his dying words, Publications of the English Goethe Society

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

A Wizard of Earthsea

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Children always turn toward the light. O that grown-up people in this would become like little children!

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

JOHN MILTON

"Areopagitica", The Prose Works of John Milton


Nations will certainly go to your light, and kings to the brightness of your shining forth.

BIBLE

Isaiah 60:3

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At the darkest moment comes the light.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The Power of Myth

Tags: Joseph Campbell


If we prefer darkness better than light, we must be suffered long to dwell in darkness; if we would hasten the time, we must take the light and diffuse it; the light which the few have must be made common to the many.

E. D. MANSFIELD

attributed, Day's Collacon


The best way to see Divine light, is to put out thine own candle.

FRANCIS QUARLES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.

LANDON PARHAM

First Night of Summer


After darkness comes the light.

NEPOS

attributed, Day's Collacon


I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

LIBBA BRAY

A Great and Terrible Beauty


We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

PLATO

attributed, Remarks of Famous People

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Where there is much light the shade is deepest.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Goetz Von Berlichingen


'Twas a light that made
Darkness itself appear
A thing of comfort.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

The Curse of Kehama

Tags: Robert Southey


Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:
So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love's Labour's Lost

Tags: William Shakespeare