LIGHT QUOTES
quotations about light
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Light is a reality. Darkness is the absence of that reality. Light is a positive force. Darkness is not a force or a presence or a quantity of any kind. It appears only when light disappears. Light is not dependent upon darkness, but darkness is totally dependent upon light.
JOHN W. SLOAT
A Handbook for Heretics
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER
Lanterns and Lances
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
General Garfield as a Statesman and Orator
And so this is what light is: an electric field tied up with a magnetic field, flying through space.
CATHAL O'CONNELL
"What is light?", Cosmos, June 14, 2016
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.
BIBLE
Genesis 1:16
Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
VICTOR HUGO
La Legende des Siécles
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN
"Anthem", Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
BIBLE
Genesis 1:3
The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.
BIBLE
Proverbs 4:18
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Literary Taste: How to Form It
There will always be a door to the light.
SHIRO AMANO
Kingdom Hearts
In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Darkness
If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
Light (God's eldest daughter!).
THOMAS FULLER
The Holy State and the Profane State
The light in the world comes principally from two sources, the sun and the student's lamp.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
I am the light of the world.
BIBLE
John 9:5
Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Goethe's Approach to Colour
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Reaper Man
Light is light, though the blind man see it not.
SALIS
attributed, Day's Collacon