--- title: "Best Light Quotes by Charles Dickens" description: "44 Light quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Light sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/charles-dickens-34_all-night_the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-pla_395330.jpg" --- > [The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-places-that-had-shown-ugly-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/charles-dickens-34_all-night_the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-pla_395330.jpg) > [With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/with-throbbing-veins-and-burning-skin-eyes-wild-and-heavy-thoughts/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/charles-dickens-34_burning_with-throbbing-veins-and-burning-skin-ey_2469654.jpg) > [There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-earth-but-its-lights-are-stronger-in-2/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fe/charles-dickens-34_bats_there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-earth-but_995504.jpg) > [The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-sun-the-bright-sun-that-brings-back-not-light-alone-but-new-life/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/charles-dickens-34_cathedrals_the-sun-the-bright-sun-that-brings-back_882376.jpg) ## Other authors on Light - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 315 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 240 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/frederick-lenz/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 147 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 103 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 102 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/paulo-coelho/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 89 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [Matshona Dhliwayo 86 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/matshona-dhliwayo/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 84 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 70 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 70 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 67 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/victor-hugo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 50 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/rajneesh/) ## More by Charles Dickens > [“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth-are-nothing-to-the-self-swindlers-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/arthur-gride-whose-bleared-eyes-gloated-only-over-the-outward/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-can-be-no-disparity-in-marriage-like-unsuitability-of-mind-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-have-tried-to-resign-myself-and-to-console-myself-and-that-i-hope-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [A new heart for a New Year, always!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-new-heart-for-a-new-year-always/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-suspense-the-fearful-acute-suspense-of-standing-idly-by-while-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mrs-joe-was-a-very-clean-housekeeper-but-had-an-exquisite-art-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of-christmas/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/evening-they-began-to-think-that-although-he-could-never-hope-to-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/besides-which-all-that-i-could-have-said-of-the-story-to-any-purpose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wheels-rolled-on-and-rolled-down-by-the-monument-and-by-the-tower/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-three-customers-pulled-off-their-hats-to-madame-defarge-with/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-a-situation-cried-miss-squeers-what-is-the-reason-that-men-fall/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-admire-machinery-as-much-is-any-man-and-am-as-thankful-to-it-as-any/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-pickwick-was-a-philosopher-but-philosophers-are-only-men-in-armour/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "Best Light Quotes by Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-places-that-had-shown-ugly-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/charles-dickens-34_all-night_the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-pla_395330.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/charles-dickens-34_all-night_the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-pla_395330.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/charles-dickens-34_all-night_the-town-was-glad-with-morning-light-pla_395330.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/with-throbbing-veins-and-burning-skin-eyes-wild-and-heavy-thoughts/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/charles-dickens-34_burning_with-throbbing-veins-and-burning-skin-ey_2469654.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/charles-dickens-34_burning_with-throbbing-veins-and-burning-skin-ey_2469654.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/charles-dickens-34_burning_with-throbbing-veins-and-burning-skin-ey_2469654.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. 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