Quotes about light
light darkness birth
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
light shadow
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
light guidance spontaneous
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.
light sun gone
The sun is gone, but I have a light. Kurt Cobain
light quality energy
Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming. Kevyn Aucoin
light reason riders
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. Jonathan Swift
light people coffins
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her? Jonathan Safran Foer
light lasts horizon
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon Norman Mailer
light attachment
Love without attachment is light. Norman O. Brown
light literature chuck
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away. Norman MacCaig
lightning ability tact
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. Orlando Aloysius Battista
light wrath taverns
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. Omar Khayyam
light stones
Whatever is not stone is light Octavio Paz
light opera singers
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. Melinda Clarke
light machines world
A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. Mason Cooley
light cynicism conclusion
Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.
light race jurassic-park
By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. Marvin Minsky
light said yeah
It's over, Sam. Finally." "Yeah," he said. "I guess it is." "Turn out the light, Sam." Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light. Michael Grant
light trying different
It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand. Michael Chang
light sometimes
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light. Menander
light laughing upset
Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh. Michio Kaku
light japan earthquakes
The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.
light people slumber
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment. Michel Foucault
light average mad
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. Martha Reeves
light darkness world
He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light. Marie Lu
light trying walks
You try to walk in the light.
light icons glasses
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us... Marge Piercy
lightning strikes
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? Theodore Sturgeon
light crow ears
The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear. Theodore Roethke
light darkness
The darkness has it's own light.
light white water
I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.
light darkness midst
In the midst of darkness, light persists. Mahatma Gandhi
light achievement society
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation. Malcolm Muggeridge