Light Quotes

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
― Vera Nazarian

“The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life

“I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.”
― Charles Lee

“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”
― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

“When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

--from "Insomniac", written April 1961”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You know how the sun rises and sets at a certain time each day? In the same way, all of our lives have a day and night. But it's not set like it is with the sun. Some people walk forever in the sunlight, and some people have to walk through the darkest night their whole lives. When people talk about being afraid, what they're afraid of is that their sun will set. That the light they love will fade.”
― Keigo Higashino, Journey Under the Midnight Sun

“The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.”
― Shiro Amano, Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1

“Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.”
― A.D. Posey

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“A Witch is a person who has honestly explored their light and has evolved to celebrate their darkness.”
― Dacha Avelin

“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”
― Tad Williams, Shadowrise

“When I closed my eyes
withdrawing myself from darkness
I saw light glowing everywhere.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.”
― David Almond, Kit's Wilderness

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant.”
― Ricky Gervais

“I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized...This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
She always gives and shares.
When you get lost she becomes the light,
Helps you to find what is right.
But she never forgets
To show you the light.”
― Debasish Mridha

“What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.”
― Christian Bobin

“You're the little spoon, aren't you?”
― Rob Thurman, Trick of the Light

“Even in the darkest clouds
There are specks of joy
Out of the darkness
Comes light
Just as day
Always follows night”
― Karen Hackel, The Whisper Of Your Soul

“Even though it's dark and cold there is always a shade of light.”
― Angela Bernabe

“You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

“A tree forms itself in answer
to its place and the light.
Explain it how you will, the only
thing explainable will be
your explanation.”
Sabbaths 1999 IV”
― Wendell Berry, Given

“So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.”
― Catherynne M. Valente