Light Quotes

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Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night. — Angelus Silesius
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that… — Ingmar Bergman
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief… — Ed Mayo
Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises. — Egon Friedell
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. — Dale Chihuly
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light… — John O'Donohue
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley
Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly. — Larry Holmes
Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for… — Cus D'Amato
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.… — Virginia Woolf
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so… — R. D. Laing
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full… — Isaac Newton
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. — P.G. Wodehouse
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. — William Wordsworth
Children always turn to the light. — David Hare
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice. — Douglas Horton
Let nothing come between you and the light. — Henry David Thoreau
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. — Franz Kafka

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