Quotes about light
light color feels
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself. Henri Matisse
light effort cost
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
light knowing clouds
So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting. Henri Nouwen
light becoming becoming-more
When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.
light white perfection
Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers... Ho Chi Minh
light literature bears
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear. Hesiod
light evil nicknames
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
light blue dragons
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight... Heinrich Heine
light batteries firsts
Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries! Hayden Christensen
light heaven may
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us. Henry Ward Beecher
light errors darkness
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!
light soul feelings
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
lighthouse coast harbors
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
light darkness causes
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. Henry Knox
light turns turn-off
Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes. Henry James
light mind literature
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.
light way form
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them. Johann Heinrich Lambert
light giving wish
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it. Johann Kaspar Lavater
light color joy
Colors are light's suffering and joy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
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 doe hammers
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
light sound heavenly
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
light shining needs
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
light lines three-things
They tell you to memorize your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks. Those are the three things that you shouldn't do. You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light - that's my opinion. Everyone else will tell me I'm wrong, but that's my opinion. Joaquin Phoenix
light laughing literature
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy. Joanne Harris
light color waiting
I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said. Maggie Stiefvater
light hands grace
Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it
light self years
Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?
light flames forever
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever. Haruki Murakami
light giving benefits
Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
light long-ago evil
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.