Light Quotes

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

All sanity depends on this: that it 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

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Earl Nightingale

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

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

Mark Twain

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

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

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Eugene Ionesco

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.

Ripley D. Saunders

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.

Jess Lai

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

Put out the light.

Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Oscar Wilde

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

A. Bronson Alcott

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carte