Light Quotes

Quotes tagged as "light" Showing 31-60 of 4,128
Kate DiCamillo
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

Carrie Hope Fletcher
“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”
Carrie Hope Fletcher

Shel Silverstein
“The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.”
Shel Silverstein

Roy T. Bennett
“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”
Roy T. Bennett

Leigh Bardugo
“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Jerry Spinelli
“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Sanober  Khan
“i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon

with the light
shining
out of its soul.”
Sanober Khan

William Luce
“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”
William Luce, The Belle of Amherst

Kami Garcia
“In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.”
Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

Jay Kristoff
“The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.”
Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

Idowu Koyenikan
“There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.”
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world.”
Gary Starta

Shannon L. Alder
“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
Shannon L. Alder

Ursula K. Le Guin
“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Maggie Nelson
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.

But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'

All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Simone Weil
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
Simone Weil

C.J. Roberts
“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

Cassandra Clare
“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

Vladimir Nabokov
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

Laini Taylor
“Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book -- a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos -- and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seemed to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place was a story about her.
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Pythagoras
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
Pythagoras

Marie Lu
“After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.”
Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

Jandy Nelson
“What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?”
Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”
Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

Libba Bray
“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

T.S. Eliot
“Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
T.S. Eliot