LIGHT QUOTES V

quotations about light

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

JAMES A. MICHENER

Space


It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

ALGERNON SIDNEY

Discourses on Government


There is strong shadow where there is much light.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Gotz von Berlichingen


Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Lord of the Rings


Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,
Common to now the living, now the dead.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Light is a thing that can be measured. It has a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and it can be investigated in a number of different ways. It has physical properties. It does not have mass -- you cannot hold onto it -- but nonetheless it can be studied by physicists. It is really there. It is a real thing. Darkness, on the other hand, is nothing. It does not exist. There is nothing to count, nothing to measure, nothing to evaluate.

HARRY LEE POE

See No Evil: The Existence of Sin in an Age of Relativism


To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Every light is not the sun.

ALEXANDER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

WINFIELD SCOTT

attributed, Day's Collacon


For this queen of colours, the light, bathing all which we behold, wherever I am through the day, gliding by me in varied forms, soothes me when engaged on other things, and not observing it. And so strongly doth it entwine itself, that if it be suddenly withdrawn, it is with longing sought for, and if absent long, saddeneth the mind.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The Confessions

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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

JERRY SPINELLI

Stargirl


He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun.

JOHN MILTON

Comus


Of all the marvelous creations of nature, none is more wonderful or more widely diffused than light.

ACTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

AARON ROSE

attributed, Reader's Digest, 1998


How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merchant of Venice


There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

DON DELILLO

Cosmopolis

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Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

COPERNICUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Light is a fluid of sunbeams.

AT-TUNIKHI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A Testament of Hope

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