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Light Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love…
- I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever…
- My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;…
- O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and…
- So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an…
- You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle…
- You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann