Lights Quotes

1199 Lights quotes by 921 unique authors

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,… — Margaret Atwood
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is… — Jeanette Winterson
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard… — James M. Barrie
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts… — W G Sebald
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. — Annie Dillard
I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. — Andy Warhol
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book,… — Louis L'Amour
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,… — Anne Lamott
Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. — Jim Butcher
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city… — Kurt Vonnegut
But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With… — Douglas Adams
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. — Bram Stoker
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people… — Haruki Murakami
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. — Henry David Thoreau
The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. — Ann Patchett
She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with… — C.S. Lewis
And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric… — Charles Bukowski
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to… — Ayn Rand
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in… — Sylvia Plath
In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of… — Sylvia Plath
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the… — Charles Bukowski

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