Light Quotes

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

Put out the light.

Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Ghandi, 1931

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Gen. Peyton C. March

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

C. C. Colton

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitze

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche